Whether, but for this, the most controversial policy of his editorship the paper's enduring support for the Vietnam war would have been any different cannot be known.
Managing the Yankees with intelligence and insight while enduring the thousand verbal paper cuts inflicted upon him by the principal owner George Steinbrenner, Joe Torre took a troubled team and advanced once again to the American League playoffs.
"I believe that The Times, in doing what it did today, sad and sacrificial as it may be, is nevertheless acting in the paper's enduring spirit to be responsible," he said.
For their role in covering and enduring the storm, both papers have been mentioned as possible recipients of the Pulitzer Prize.
Yet the show also proves the enduring ease and intimacy of paper and pencil, pen or brush.
Just as it's difficult to measure the enduring quality of a research paper for several years, sometimes decades, after its publication, the value of good teaching might not be immediately obvious.
By turning The Wall Street Journal Europe into a broadsheet format he is not only expressing his belief in the enduring demand for a physical paper news product, but stepping up the fight with the Journal's big rivals, the Financial Times and The New York Times.
The idea of using technology to replicate the simplicity and versatility of paper is an enduring one, but no device has nailed it just yet.
As a distinct form of DIY urbanism, it could be argued that temporary use projects might be least likely to promote enduring change but, in this paper, we demonstrate that it is their very transience that enables the interstices between the actual and the possible to be exploited in innovative ways.
A look at the paper reveals some of the enduring idiosyncrasies of research reports and some of the ways they have changed over the years.
