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Editor dies in fall from New York Times office building
Associated Press | 8/22/2002

Posted on 08/22/2002 11:59:55 AM PDT by ArcLight

NEW YORK (AP) -- A longtime business editor at The New York Times fell to his death from the 11th floor of the newspaper's Times Square office building Thursday in what police called a possible suicide.

Allen Myerson, whose title was assistant business editor/weekends, fell from the West 43rd Street building around 9:45 a.m., police said. His body landed on the roof of a nearby garage.

The newspaper's spokeswoman, Catherine Mathis, confirmed his death. She said Myerson, 47, had worked at the Times since 1989.

Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. sent an internal memo to employees announcing Myerson's death and saying that police were investigating the circumstances. Police Sgt. Kevin Hayes said police were treating the death as a possible suicide.

"As with any family, we're called on to endure our share of tragedies," Mathis quoted Sulzberger as saying in the memo. "This is one of those times and our support for one another will help all of us get through it."

Myerson is survived by his wife, Carol Cropper Myerson, who works at BusinessWeek. They had no children.

Myerson wrote frequently on energy-related issues. In January, he edited "The New Rules of Personal Investing," a compilation of essays offering investing tips from top business writers at the newspaper.

Myerson joined the Times after working for the Lexington Herald-Leader and The Dallas Morning News.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: nytimes; suicide
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To: Uncle Bill
Possible Arkancide/Enron FYI bump.
101 posted on 08/22/2002 5:44:52 PM PDT by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
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To: 2sheep; ArcLight
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... The prospects of point jumping without ... as perfected in the 1920's stock market crash ... this
we would see plummeting stock brokers from tall buildings ...

Welcome to Nick's and Ryan's Stock Market Page
... was so severe that people were actually jumping out of buildings ... of the Dow Jones
Averages from 1920 ... Click Here to go to the Stock Market Crash ...
www.davison.k12.mi.us/students/dunklee/StockMkt.htm

Interview: An Interview with Leo Donovan, Grandfather
... Prohibition went into effect in 1920 ... The Stock Market crashed in October ... At the time
of the crash ... commit suicide, especially by jumping out of buildings ...

GALLERY SIX:The Great Depression
... a room for sleeping or jumping ... doubling of resources for public buildings ... in productivity
achieved since 1920 ... of them played the stock ... load even before the crash ...

Gathering storm (The Economy)

102 posted on 08/22/2002 5:48:01 PM PDT by It'salmosttolate
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To: ArcLight
I read this story this morning on FR...have been watching the news all day long in NYC...not a peep...wonder why this isn't being covered...isn't it a little unusual for someone from a major paper to commit suicide at work? Wonder if he was canned or threatened.
103 posted on 08/22/2002 5:55:09 PM PDT by foreshadowed at waco
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To: babble-on
Good work on your posts.

Q. Does anyone know for sure if the window this guy "fell" from was one that could be opened?

Q. Have you seen any financial connections between Enron and The Old Gray Streetwalker?

Anyway, it sure looks possible that this man was Fosterized.

104 posted on 08/22/2002 7:11:37 PM PDT by Rockpile
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To: Rockpile
Two questionable suicides have occurred now revolving around the Enron story.

This has Arkansas Mafia written all over it.

105 posted on 08/22/2002 7:26:13 PM PDT by copycat
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To: ArcLight
Dead cat bounce?
106 posted on 08/22/2002 7:26:35 PM PDT by isthisnickcool
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To: ArcLight
Allen R. Myerson: The Man Who Knew Too Much.
107 posted on 08/22/2002 7:37:10 PM PDT by pray4liberty
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To: ArcLight
I haven't got a clue who Myerson is as I do not read the NY Times. I do like the NY Yankees. Anyway not trying to be funny, but this is one funny thread. Again my condolences to Mrs. Myerson and Family...
108 posted on 08/22/2002 7:39:02 PM PDT by jdontom
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To: TC Rider
I've always had the impression that Hillie was the goto person for this sort of thing.

This is gonna be a software in-joke, but what the hey!...

Wasn't it E. W. Dijkstra who wrote the original article on

"Gotos considered harmful"

?

109 posted on 08/22/2002 7:51:24 PM PDT by Erasmus
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To: ArcLight
Myerson: "You want some beer? You buy, I'll fly"
110 posted on 08/22/2002 7:53:40 PM PDT by fuquadukie
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To: My2Cents
In the words of the famous Glenn Beck song, "Just another isolated incident..."
111 posted on 08/22/2002 8:07:11 PM PDT by falfa
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To: LarryLied
Kopper cops a plea, Fastow's assets are frozen that night and the next day a reporter who covered Enron is dead after falling out a window.

Uh huh....

"Uh huh" indeed. I read he had been having some sort of a psychological breakdown in front before the jump. That would seem to militate against the "Clinton Body Count" theory.

By the way, for the person who asked - many, many older office buildings have windows that can be opened.

The overwhelmingly vast majority of the time, when people kill themselves, it's really a suicide. Even when people of influence or position do it.

Regards,
Snidely

112 posted on 08/22/2002 9:17:20 PM PDT by Snidely Whiplash
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To: Snidely Whiplash
Maybe somebody ought to hook a bungie cord up to Bill Kristol.

He could be next. Enron paid him $100,000 to work as an "advisor."

113 posted on 08/22/2002 9:28:18 PM PDT by LarryLied
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To: Snidely Whiplash
Leaping Lexiconologists Batman ! Four journalists who were reporting on Enron were on Enron's payroll. Better get dozen bungie cords just to be safe.
114 posted on 08/22/2002 9:38:17 PM PDT by LarryLied
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To: LarryLied; Alamo-Girl; ProudAmerican2
Yesterday the Department of Justice announced that Kopper had pled guilty and was cooperating with the Enron investigation. Last night the Feds froze the assets of Skilling. And today a reporter covering Enron kills himself. Some coincidence.

And that reporter who apparently killed himself was a liberal reporter for the Gray Old Whore, a fanatical arm of the Clinton mob-controlled DNC. I would add it to the Clinton death list.

115 posted on 08/22/2002 9:43:18 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Lancey Howard
Jeepers! Thanks for the heads up!
116 posted on 08/22/2002 10:11:39 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: Howlin
It's raining cats n' reporters in NY?
117 posted on 08/22/2002 10:13:03 PM PDT by piasa
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To: piasa; LarryLied; Liz; Libloather
There's a New Yorker cartoon in here somewhere!
118 posted on 08/23/2002 12:14:07 AM PDT by Howlin
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To: Lancey Howard
And that reporter who apparently killed himself was a liberal reporter for the Gray Old Whore, a fanatical arm of the Clinton mob-controlled DNC. I would add it to the Clinton death list.

Inane comments like this are why I put little faith in the Clinton body count. Perhaps you should loosen your tin foil hat because it is cutting off circulation to your brain.

119 posted on 08/23/2002 5:40:21 AM PDT by ProudAmerican2
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To: berned
He probably found out that the ties between the Clintons and ENRON were to be made public.
120 posted on 08/23/2002 6:24:50 AM PDT by Redleg Duke
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