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...while the press corps was playing "getting used to Reagan" and Carter was falling to the lowest rating in Gallup's 40 years of measuring presidential popularity, FORTUNE published "Why Carter Will Probably Win," by Everett Carll Ladd of the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research. Ladd (who hasn't changed his mind since, even after Billy Carter) concludes from his samplings that 1980 is shaping up as a "competence election," a question on which he says "Reagan's weakness with the electorate matches Carter's." Having failed to persuade the great middle of the electorate...
...When Carll Tucker bought the august Saturday Review in 1977, he described its typical reader as "somebody's aunt." Unable to attract a younger audience of nieces and nephews, Tucker, 28, sold the ailing magazine last week to Robert I. Weingarten, 38, owner of Financial World (circ. 59,000), an investment magazine. The purchase price was not revealed. Says Tucker, who will stay on as editor of Saturday Review (circ. 500,000): "Going at the speed we were going at, we weren't going to get from here to there...
...Shortly after Carll Tucker, a book and theater critic for the Village Voice, turned 25, his father-in-law, Manhattan Radio Station Owner R. Peter Straus, took him to breakfast to discuss the young man's future employment prospects. Straus brought along Norman Cousins, editor of Saturday Review since he turned 25 in 1940. Cousins "liked the cut of his jib" and last week found something for young Tucker to do: buy and then edit Saturday Review. The price was from $3 million to $6.5 million, depending on various future expenses, and part of the money comes from...
...formula: offer cocktails, dinner and a play under one roof, all (except for the liquor) at a fixed price, which varies from a weeknight low of $6 in some Southern towns to a weekend high of $15 in areas close to Boston and New York City. Says Mrs. Russ Carll of New Orleans: "It's the biggest bargain in town...
...WALKER CARLL...