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...three books published this year by former Post executives, none reflects the ugliness more graphically than Otto Friedrich's Decline and Fall (Harper & Row; $10). The others-Matthew J. Culligan's The Curtis-Culligan Story (Crown) and Martin S. Ackerman's The Curtis Affair (Nash)-are by two former presidents of the Post's parent, the Curtis Publishing Co. Though reputed swashbucklers in business, Culligan and Ackerman are plodders in print, offering little more than inarticulate exercises in self-justification. Former Managing Editor Friedrich's book is not without self-praise, but for the most...
Blair's Mutiny. Friedrich joined the Post in 1962, and he was still there when Marty Ackerman ("I'd sooner sell my wife") folded it in 1969. He thinks that the magazine's decline actually began in the '30s and '40s, when top management tried to turn Curtis into a great printing company instead of a great publishing company. But he contends that the Post could have been saved many times during its last few years, and it is the abortive attempts to save it that dominate his book...
...mutiny led by Editor Clay Blair and Wall Street Investor Marvin Kantor against Culligan, which ended with all three walking the plank; the fling at "sophisticated muckraking," which ended in the Post's losing a $460,000 libel suit and some of its good reputation; the advent of Ackerman, who arrived like the U.S. Cavalry, complete with his own bugle call-"I am 36 years old, and I am very rich. I hope to make the Curtis Publishing Co. rich again...
...Curtis consultant suggests that the Post convert scripts of TV's Bonanza series into short stories because of their "proven popularity." To save on paper, the Post is shaved in 1966 by one-eighth or an inch along the top and bottom and one-sixteenth along the sides. Ackerman, faced with the possible loss of $400,000 in Ford Motor Co. advertising, suddenly tells the Ford representative: "You know, I really can't understand why you'd take all your advertising out of this issue when we're going to have Mr. Ford's picture...
...Humanities, James S. Ackerman, professor of Fine Arts, was elected to replace Rogers G. Albritton, professor of Philosophy, whose term expired. Herbert Bloch. professor of Greek and Latin, was re-elected...