Word: culligan
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...Late. Though on its knees, the Post did not succumb without a struggle for new life. In 1962, Curtis directors found a new president in Matthew J. Culligan, a dashing former advertising man who had reversed the skidding revenues of NBC's Today show. Culligan hired and fired, wheeled and dealed, and managed to shore up Curtis' finances for a while. He installed Clay Blair Jr. as editor in chief of the Post; Blair's "sophisticated muckraking" changed the character of the magazine and made for lively reading, but it also led to at least six libel...
...financial trouble? Has he fled the country to avoid exposure as a homosexual? If not, why did he spend so many nights in a certain apartment with a university professor? If President Roudebush knows the answer, he isn't talking-not even to Press Secretary Eugene Culligan, the narrator of this latest example of presidential pulp fiction...
When Supersalesman Matthew J. Culligan took over NBC radio in 1956, its operations were a staggering $3,000,000 in the red. Within three years, Joe Culligan had set the radio network to humming profitably along again. Later, as president of the beleaguered Curtis Publishing Co., his skill at troubleshooting misfired, and he was forced out after an executive-suite revolt. But, as he is fond of saying, "a comeback career seems to be my lot." Now he has gone back to radio, this time as president of the nation's biggest network, the Mutual Broadcasting System. Culligan wants...
Curtis has also made a substantial recovery from the internal revolt that shook it last year. When Editor in Chief Clay Blair Jr., whose policy of "sophisticated muckraking" involved the Post in costly libel suits, tried to oust President Matthew Culligan, Curtis dumped them both. But not before the entire organization had suffered. The Culligan-Blair regime was a textbook example of mismanagement. Now that Blair is gone and Culligan has been replaced by John Clifford, a one-time NBC vice president, the editorial operation appears to be calming down. "For years we've heard nothing but the snap...
Curtis announced at the same time that Matthew J. Culligan, who had been ousted as president and chief executive officer last October after being charged with mismanagement by revolting editors, would now step down as chairman and director. He will, however, continue to draw his $150,000 salary while working on special assignments: preparing a company history, scouting for broadcasting possibilities. Quipped Culligan, who had once confidently predicted that Curtis would be out of the red in 1964: "I guess I should say that I long for the obscurity I undoubtedly deserve...