Graham wrote a check for $2,000,000 as a down payment on the $8,985,000 purchase price.
* In 1962, the Post Company again expanded into the magazine field by buying Art News, the most widely read monthly in the art field, and Portfolio, a hard-cover art quarterly, from Albert M. Frankfurter.

Involvement in politics

While running the Washington Post and other parts of the Post Company, Graham played a backstage role in national and local politics. Graham was part of the informal but influential

1.Previous
3.Next