The Times’s decades-long collection of visitors’ signatures reveals an eclectic range of guests, including presidents, civil rights activists and the composer of “Cats.”
NEW YORK (AP) Joseph J. Vecchione, whose decade tenure as sports editor of The New York Times included columnist Dave Anderson’s Pulitzer Prize and the hiring of William C. Rhoden to become among the earliest Black columnists at a U.S.
In New York City, he helped engineer behind-the-scenes rescues of monuments, murals and museums and the preservation of Times Square’s dazzling lights.
To many New Yorkers, he was their brash and blustery mayor. But friends are now describing the private strain endured by a public man laboring to conceal his sexual orientation.