Word: burrs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...center of arguments over new styles. In the case of the midi, however, the dominant force is a publisher, the press lord of a tiny trade-journal fiefdom that churns out eight publications that few Americans have ever heard of?except for one. He is John Burr Fairchild, 43, the head of Fairchild Publications and the boss of Women's Wear Daily, the terror tabloid of the fashion world. Fairchild is a puzzling study of opposites. Though the columns of WWD are filled with the social doings of what he calls the "Beautiful People," he resolutely shuns their company...
...search for Pusey's successor has already caused the selection committee a number of problems. In his letter to alumni, Francis Burr, a member of the Corporation, referred to the next President, as "a man generally acceptable to the Harvard community...
This, and another reference to "a man" caused reaction among Radcliffe women who are concerned about sexism in the selection process. Burr has stressed that his word choice was in-advertent and that several women are on the list of 600 candidates...
Nominees range, in the words of Francis Burr, "from S.I. Hayakawa and Spiro Agnew on the right to Norman Mailer and Jerry Rubin on the left." For what job? Burr, senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation, is leading the search for a successor to Harvard President Nathan Pusey, who is stepping down next June. This gives Burr a year to find one. He has made a semipublic appeal for nominations, and there is even a telephone answering service on campus that records the favorite choice of any interested party...
...Former HEW Secretary John Gardner, Vanderbilt Chancellor Alexander Heard (who turned down Columbia), McGeorge Bundy, Princeton Economist Carl Kaysen, Harvard Law School Dean Derek Bok, HEW Secretary Elliot Richardson. The Boston Record-American last week reported that Richardson has already been tapped and has accepted. But Harvard's Burr denies this. Says he: "The net is still...