Word: clark
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...desk of a public relations officer in the Salt Lake City headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The scrawled writing on the envelope instructed David O. McKay, president of the Mormons from 1951 to 1970, to deliver it to the clerk of Clark County in Las Vegas?a city whose glitter had attracted Hughes. Handwritten and partly smudged, the document runs for three pages and is filled with misspellings (cildren for children, for example). Purportedly written in 1968, it divides Hughes' estate into shares ranging from one-sixteenth to onequarter. Among the beneficiaries: the Mormon...
Morgan, 50, is married to a Rockefeller (Nelson's younger daughter, Mary), has worked at Esquire and New York and, until last month, was editor of the Village Voice. Morgan says he will retain Editor Blair Clark, 59, to write the paper's editorials. He intends to raise freelance rates, attract more big-name political writers, and try to give The Nation something it has lacked for all but a handful of its 111 years: a profit. "My goal is to run it in the black," says Morgan. "It has always been an independent journal of ideas...
...recently a pair of 75-minute programs on 17th century Painters Caravaggio and Rubens. Hughes' current projects include a book about Australia's early days as an English penal colony, and also a nine-part television series on 20th century art intended to pick up where Kenneth Clark's Civilisation left off. "It's nice when people agree with what you've written about art," says Hughes, who also knows what it is like to have readers disagree with him. "But nicest of all is when what you write triggers people to think things through...
...states, but its earnings figures were inflated. At one point, one part of Four Seasons was lending money to another part to enable the company to "buy" nursing centers from itself. In 1970 the company declared bankruptcy, coincidentally a week after Penn Central did the same. Jack L. Clark, founder and president, spent nine months hi prison for his role in defrauding shareholders of some $200 million; he now runs a cattle ranch in Oklahoma...
Schiff has dangled the paper before a long procession of prospective buyers. Among them: Eleanor Roosevelt, Thread Heir and Nation Editor Blair Clark, Post Editorial Page Editor James Wechsler, New York Magazine Editor Clay Felker. "It's her way of flirting," says Felker. This year she became serious. Among the possible reasons: the specter of afternoon competition from the News-or from Murdoch, who had been telling associates he might launch his own New York daily if he could not get the Post; Schiff's conclusion that her daughter, Post Assistant Publisher Adele Hall Sweet, would never fill...