Word: blaire
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second and most massive sweep occurred at about 2:20 p. m. when Blair read a warning to the demonstrators remaining in Cambridge St. that they would be arrested if they did not move. Immediately after he stopped speaking, 350 policemen charged the group from all sides, wielding their clubs freely. About 15 people were arrested as police chased the crowd three blocks up Tremont...
...assistant to the President for Community Affairs Edward S. Gruson relate Harvard's plans for low- and moderate-income housing in the area. "We have a commitment to build 520 units of low- and moderate-income housing-these units will be built at the Mt. Auburn-Putnam, Howard Street, Blair Pond and Prospect Street sites," he said...
Morris departed with a new and bitter aphorism: "It all boiled down to the money men and the literary men. And, as always, the money men won." At Harper's, which has run in the red the past three years, the chief moneyman is Publisher William S. Blair. The showdown between them came two weeks ago at a regularly scheduled business meeting in Minneapolis, where Morris found himself faced with a 21-page memorandum submitted by Blair, most of it critical of the magazine's editorial performance. Blair's attack was based largely on economics, but some...
...heard many from Blair from the time Harper's Chairman John Cowles Jr. put Blair in the publisher's seat in 1968. Blair wanted Harper's to reduce its circulation (currently 359,000) and cut the promotion budget for financial reasons. Morris insisted on continued innovative content aimed at expanding the circulation...
Last week, the battle lost. Morris wrote his resignation and mailed it to Cowles in Minneapolis. He heard of its acceptance thirdhand-from staffers who had been told by Blair, who had been informed by Cowles. Morris called Cowles to protest, but in vain. Then, in a public statement of resignation, he deplored what he called "cavalier treatment by business managers of America's most distinguished magazine...