Times Company Reverses Its Plans to Sell Worcester Telegram & Gazette.

Having given up on selling The Boston Globe, The New York Times Company said Monday that it had also decided not to sell another Massachusetts newspaper, The Worcester Telegram & Gazette. Two potential buyers had emerged for the Worcester paper, though it was not clear how much they were offering. A group led by Harry T. Whitin, a former Telegram & Gazette editor, and Ralph D. Crowley Jr., an executive of a bottling company, had been seen as the top contender for months. And recently, Jeff Greene, a billionaire real estate investor based in Florida, expressed interest in the paper, which has weekday circulation of 73,000. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]