Word: blair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Married. Betsy Blair, 39, red-haired cinemactress who played Marty's schoolteacher girl friend; and Karel Reisz, 37, Czech-born British film director, whose credits include Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and This Sporting Life; he for the first, she for the second time (her first: Dancer Gene Kelly); in London...
...Robert Blair Kaiser studied ten years for the priesthood before becoming a journalist. Fluent in Latin, he was assigned by TIME to cover the Ecumenical Council of the Vatican in the fall of 1962, and his knowledgeable reporting won for him the 1963 Overseas Press Club award for the best magazine reporting on foreign affairs. Recently he took time off to write Pope, Council and World (Macmillan; $4.95). So that he could get the solitude he wanted, he checked in at the Roman College of an international missionary order, and there for six weeks wrote from 8 in the morning...
With unaccustomed modesty, Editor Blair, the only Poster whose name appears twice on the masthead, confined his response to the verdict to eight words. "We are very disappointed," he said, "and we shall appeal...
...Post and its parent Curtis Publishing Co., the verdict landed with a thud. Its secondary effects had yet to be studied as advertisers assess the damage done to the Post's reputation. "The Story of a College Football Fix" was only one entry in Editor Clay Blair Jr.'s program of "sophisticated muckraking," designed to rejuvenate the magazine. That program has already generated three other libel actions-one of them filed by Alabama Coach Paul ("Bear") Bryant for the very same article...
...Post defense detectibly strengthened by depositions from Post Editor Clay Blair Jr. and Post Senior Editor Roger Kahn. In his statement, Kahn confessed to a "certain skepticism" about the Burnett story and said that he had urged Writer Graham to "be careful." Editor Blair's statement acknowledged both his own authority to kill the story and his decision not to do so-a decision that apparently fitted Blair's program of rejuvenating the ailing Post by "sophisticated muckraking," and his ambition "to provoke people, make them...