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Ralph M. Ingersoll Jr.
Ralph M. Ingersoll was an American newspaper publisher. In the 1950s, his father, Ralph Ingersoll, acquired and managed several newspapers. His company, Ingersoll Publications, founded in 1957, was taken over by his son Ralph M. Ingersoll Jr. in 1982 after he had bought his father out in a deal that left them no longer on speaking terms. The Ingersoll chain included about 40 daily papers, the largest of which was The New Haven Register, acquired in 1986. It also owned The Trentonian, in New Jersey's capital, and more than 100 weekly papers, including St. Louis Suburban Newspapers, a group of 41 weeklies. Further reading * Notes External links *{{cite news, url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/11/17/books/crusading-editor-dies-rich.html?scp=1&sq=Ralph%20Ingersoll&st=cse, title=Crusading Editor Dies Rich, first= Lester, last= Bernstein , newspaper=The New York Times, date=November 17, 1985 Ingersoll Ingersoll may refer to: People *Ingersoll (surname) *Ingersoll Lockwood (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Ingersoll (PM Publisher)
Ralph McAllister Ingersoll (December 8, 1900 in New Haven, Connecticut – March 8, 1985 in Miami Beach, Florida) was an American writer, editor, and publisher. He is best known as founder and publisher of '' PM'', a short-lived 1940s New York City left-wing daily newspaper that was financed by Chicago millionaire Marshall Field III. Biography Ingersoll went to Hotchkiss School, graduated from Yale University's Sheffield Scientific School and became a mining engineer in California, Arizona and Mexico. In 1923 he went to New York with the intention of becoming a writer. He worked as a reporter for the ''New York American'' from 1923 to 1925, and then joined ''The New Yorker'' where he was managing editor from 1925 to 1930. He had been hired by the ''New Yorker'' founder and editor Harold Ross a few months after the magazine commenced publication; Ross inadvertently spilled an inkwell on Ingersoll's new light suit (various sources claim it was either white or pale gray) during the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |