Word: blair
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Also on display: Farmer Miles Blair, 53, who spends most of his time writing letters urging closer ties with Portugal and South Africa and none at all with the U.S.; and David ("Screaming Lord") Sutch, a 22-year-old plumber's helper turned rock-'n'-roll singer, who called for a better deal for Britain's teenagers, though by law they are not permitted to vote for him, and affrighted Stratford-upon-Avon by campaigning in top hat and tails. "What," he asked disdainfully, "has Hamlet done for you lately...
...said Saturday Evening Post Editor Clay Blair Jr. in a recent speech, "is make speeches, deal with libel lawyers and raise hell about the telephone bill." Last week Blair was doing even less. Told by Curtis Publishing Co. President Matthew J. Culligan to quit talking to reporters, he hardly had time to look at the phone bill either. He was worrying about lawyers in an Atlanta courtroom where the Post was defending itself against a $10 million libel suit filed by former University of Georgia Football Coach Wally Butts...
...Post could hardly have been more delighted with the fuss that it had stirred up. Curtis lost $18.9 million last year, and ever since brash young Clay Blair Jr., 37, was named editorial director of all Curtis magazines last fall, the Post has apparently been trying to hit its readers with a blockbuster a week, though its only previous success was December's notorious "eyeball-to-eyeball" account of the Cuba crisis. But as long as the blockbusters make a lot of noise, the Post does not seem much concerned by any fallout. "The final yardstick" of the magazine...
Bizarre Measure. By Blair's bizarre measure, the Post last week succeeded be yond its wildest dreams. Wally Butts's lawyers said that they would strain Blair's yardstick with a $10 million libel suit. Already headed for the courts is a $5,000,000 suit filed by Marlon Brando, after a Post piece said that "he wasted $6,000,000 by sulking on the set" of Mutiny on the Bounty. Bear Bryant, who brought a $500,000 action last fall, after the Post accused him of teaching brutal football, says that he will file another suit...
Other ex-Crimeds now prominent in journalism include Otto E. Fuerbringer '32, managing editor of Time; Anthony Lewis '48, Supreme Court correspondent for the New York Times; and Blair Clark '40, director of CBS news...