Newspaperman: Inside the News Business at The Wall Street Journal

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I AM INDEBTED to my wife, Barbara Phillips, and to my late mother, Juliette Phillips Heller, for preserving correspondence, clippings, and other mementos. Without those records, this memoir would not have been possible.

I also owe much to Robin Siegel and to Bernard Friedlander, both cousins, and to my youngest daughter, Nina Phillips, for researching the family genealogy, including the passenger manifests of ships that brought my father and his family to the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

My past administrative assistants—Karen Cuddy, Susan Chin, and Diane Scanlon—preserved, organized, and contributed to other records many years ago and these, too, proved helpful in preparing this book. More ...