Elizabeth Morris "Lally" Graham Weymouth (born 3 July 1943) is an American journalist who is the senior editor of Newsweek magazine.
She is an heir to the Washington Post media fortune, whose properties include Newsweek.
She is the only daughter of Katharine Graham and Philip Graham, both of whom were publishers of the Post. She attended The Madeira School and Radcliffe College. She is the sister of Donald Graham, the Washington Post Company's ch...
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Elizabeth Morris "Lally" Graham Weymouth (born 3 July 1943) is an American journalist who is the senior editor of Newsweek magazine.
She is an heir to the Washington Post media fortune, whose properties include Newsweek.
She is the only daughter of Katharine Graham and Philip Graham, both of whom were publishers of the Post. She attended The Madeira School and Radcliffe College. She is the sister of Donald Graham, the Washington Post Company's chief executive officer, and the mother of Katharine Weymouth, the newspaper's publisher. The company has owned Newsweek since 1961.
Lally Weymouth graduated from Radcliffe College at Harvard University with a degree in American History and Literature.
She married architect Yann R. Weymouth (older brother of Tina Weymouth, bass player for the rock band Talking Heads) in 1964; the marriage, she later said, "was horribly rash". The groom was an architect who worked for I.M. Pei in the 1960s (he was the co-architect of Pei's East Wing for the...
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