Eric Ridder did most of his sailing in large ocean racing, with his greatest accomplishment coming when he served as a co-skipper aboard Constellation in 1964, when it won the America’s Cup. As a young man he attended Harvard but never graduated. He spent his entire career in newspaper work and publishing, as he was descended from a family that helped form Knight-Ridder Publishing. After college he started out as business manager of the St. Paul Dispatch and Pioneer Press, prior to serving as a Marine in World War II. He published the Journal of Commerce from 1956 to 1985, and was director for Knight-Ridder from 1983 until his death.
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