"The Chattanooga paper prospered and the town prospered with it."
—@nytimes in 1935 on the legacy of its editor Adolph S. Ochs, father of "All the news that's fit to print"
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0312.html …
"In the language of William M. Stone, Mr. Ochs "took the dirty, poverty-stricken village by the nape of the neck and by sheer force of magnetic optimism and courageous enterprise lifted it to where it is today.""
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"There was no civic improvement of those years in Chattanooga that The Times did not promote--indeed often it started them--the opera house, the firemen's fountain, the dredging of a channel in the Tennessee River."
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"More important, perhaps, was the Chickamauga National Park, of which Mr. Ochs was one of the originators, and which served to get him started in the park movement which was to prove one of the great interests of his life."
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