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...He replaces Katharine Weymouth, 48, a fourth-generation member of the Graham family....
...His first marriage was to Jean Saltonstall, a fellow upper-crust Bostonian, and his second was to Antoinette Pinchot, whose sister was married to Cord Meyer, the CIA luminary....
...“We may be going back to an era where there will be people with deep pockets and deep resources who will be committed to journalism,” Katharine Weymouth, the then publisher and the last generation of the...
...Philip Graham, Mr Meyer’s son-in-law, became publisher in 1946 and expanded the company through acquiring television stations, rival newspapers and Newsweek magazine....
...Katharine Graham, her grandmother, took charge of the Washington Post in 1963 after her husband committed suicide....
...in 1933 and whose mother, Katharine Graham, published the Pentagon Papers and the Watergate investigations that led to Richard Nixon’s resignation....
...His daughter, Katharine Graham, defended the Post through Watergate; his grandson, Don Graham, chairs The Washington Post Company; and Mr Bezos says he will keep Katharine Weymouth, the fourth-generation...
...It was in 1933 that Eugene Meyer acquired the Post at a bankruptcy sale during the Depression, later handing it on to his son-in-law Phillip Graham....
...“It’s much like my great-grandfather, who bought the Post in 1933 with his own personal money and for many years lost dollars out of his own pocket,” says Katharine Weymouth, the paper’s publisher....
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