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C. L. Sulzberger
Cyrus Leo Sulzberger II (October 27, 1912 – September 20,
1993) was an American journalist, diarist, and non-fiction writer. C. L. Sulzberger
He was a member of the family that owned The New York Times
and he was that newspaper's lead foreign correspondent during
the 1940s and 1950s.

Contents
Biography
Personal life
Selected books
References
External links

Sulzberger in 1968
Biography Born Cyrus Leo Sulzberger
II
Sulzberger was born in New York City on October 27, 1912 to Leo
October 27, 1912
Sulzberger (1885–1926). He was the nephew of Arthur Hays
Sulzberger, who was publisher of The New York Times from 1935 New York City
to 1961.[1][2] He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Died September 20, 1993
University in 1934. Cy, as he was commonly called, joined the (aged 80)
family paper in 1939 and was soon covering stories oversea as B.A. Harvard
Education
Europe edged toward World War II. Among the reporters who
University
worked for him during the war were Drew Middleton and James
Reston. He served as a foreign affairs correspondent for 40 years Occupation Journalist
and wrote two dozen books in his lifetime.[2] His skills as a Spouse(s) Marina Tatiana Ladas
raconteur were legendary as were his friendships with high and
Children David Alexis
mighty or just plain interesting people. Because of the circles he
traveled in, he sometimes carried messages from one foreign Sulzberger
leader to another; for U.S. President John F. Kennedy he Marina Beatrice
conveyed a note to Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev in 1961. Of Sulzberger
all the leaders he befriended, it is said that he was closest to Parent(s) Leo Sulzberger
President Charles de Gaulle of France.
Family Cyrus Leopold
Sulzberger

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In a 1977 article for Rolling Stone, journalist Carl Bernstein (grandfather)

included Sulzberger in a group of columnists and commentators Arthur Hays
whose CIA relationships Bernstein characterized as going "far Sulzberger (uncle)
beyond those normally maintained between reporters and their Adrian Michael Berry
sources." He cited CIA files as referring to Sulzberger as what the (son-in-law)
agency called "known assets." Bernstein quoted unnamed CIA
officials as saying Sulzberger at one time published a briefing
paper the CIA provided him almost verbatim under his byline. Bernstein then quoted Sulzberger as
calling that allegation "a lot of baloney" and insisting that while the agency might have considered
him "an asset," in the sense of his willingness to answer questions about his travels to (fictitious
nations) "Slobovia" or "Ruritania," he never took formal assignments from the agency nor would "get
caught near the spook business." [3] The Times also denied that Sulzberger had ever been a paid CIA
agent.

Sulzberger won a special Pulitzer Prize in 1951 citing "his exclusive interview with Archbishop
Stepinac"—Aloysius Stepinac, Archbishop of Zagreb.[4]

Personal life
In 1942 Sulzberger married Marina Tatiana Ladas, a Greek who was often his travel companion and
ensured that they had an active and elegant social life in Paris. She died in 1976 and he died at their
Paris home on September 20, 1993.[5] They had two children: David Alexis Sulzberger and Marina
Beatrice Sulzberger.[2] In 1967, Marina married Adrian Michael Berry,[6] who later became 4th
Viscount Camrose, thereby linking two newspaper dynasties. The Camrose family had once owned
The Daily Telegraph and retained an interest in that paper until it was taken over by Conrad Black in
1986.

Selected books
Sit Down with John L. Lewis (New York: Random House, c1938) — about CIO founder John L.
Lewis
The American Heritage Picture History of World War II (New York: American Heritage, 1966), by
Sulzberger with the editors of American Heritage
A Long Row of Candles: Memoirs and Diaries, 1934-1954 (New York: Macmillan, 1969)
The Tooth Merchant: A Novel (New York: Quadrangle, 1973) — a novel in which Sulzberger
himself appears briefly as a journalist
An Age of Mediocrity: Memoirs and Diaries, 1963-1972 (New York: Macmillan, 1973)
The Fall of Eagles (New York: Crown Publishers, 1977)

References
1. "Mrs. Sulzberger's Final Rites Held" (https://www.newspapers.com/image/52654258/?terms=%22j
acob%2Bhays%22%2Bshearith). The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Brooklyn, NY. 1938-02-11. Retrieved
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acob%2Bhays%22%2Bshearith). The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Brooklyn, NY. 1938-02-11. Retrieved

2017-07-01.
2. McFadden, Robert D. (September 21, 1993). "C. L. Sulzberger, Columnist, Dies at 80" (https://ww
w.nytimes.com/1993/09/21/obituaries/c-l-sulzberger-columnist-dies-at-80.html?pagewanted=all).
The New York Times.
3. "The CIA and the media" (http://www.carlbernstein.com/magazine_cia_and_media.php). Retrieved
2014-12-30.
4. "Special Awards and Citations" (http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/Special-Awards-and-Citations). The
Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-12-07.
5. "C.L. Sulzberger; Foreign Affairs Correspondent" (https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/doc/28205
0730.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Sep%2022,%201993&author=&pub=
Los%20Angeles%20Times%20%28pre-1997%20Fulltext%29&edition=&startpage=&desc=C.L.%
20Sulzberger). Los Angeles Times. September 20, 1993. Retrieved 2010-03-27. "But Cyrus Leo
Sulzberger, who graduated magna cum laude from Harvard in 1934, decided to start his career
elsewhere. He worked as a general assignment ..."
Abstract; subscription or payment required for full text.
6. "Miss Sulzberger, Foreign Analyst's daughter, to Marry" (http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1966/
07/11/page/39/article/miss-sulzberger-foreign-analysts-daughter-to-marry). Chicago Tribune. July
11, 1966.

External links
Cyrus Sulzberger (https://lccn.loc.gov/n50010445) at Library of Congress Authorities, with 34
catalog records (including 4 "from old catalog"; 29 under 'Sulzberger, C. L. (Cyrus Leo), 1912–'
without '1933')
Appearances (https://www.c-span.org/person/?csulzberger) on C-SPAN

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