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Early in July, Derek Curtis Bok, age 41, will end his six-month tenure as Harvard's President-designate and embark on a course replete with pitfalls-a course subject to myriad pressures-as the 25th President of the University.
"I've played the best players of the last two decades," said Tennis Pro Jacques Grigry, "and I've never played one with better form." Bystanders may have wondered exactly what Grigry meant; still, there was no question that Actress Raquel Welch showed signs of developing an athletic...
Cut-Rate Control. This staggering overdose of nostalgia does not bother Beurt SerVaas, 52, the editor and publisher whose name is the most unfamiliar thing about the new Post. A blunt, bouncy Indianapolis industrialist who has made a specialty of saving failing companies (and making millions in the process), SerVaas...
Although his background in publishing is exceedingly modest, SerVaas believes that "all businesses are alike. Only the product or service varies," he says. "Most businesses do not fail; managers do. Business failures are management failures." His consistent formula for success is to fire the old management, slash the staff and...
The new Curtis operation runs on a shoestring, in typical SerVaas fashion. A compact staff of 50, based in Indianapolis, will produce both the Post and Holiday, and reruns or rewrites by retreads will figure prominently in future issues of the Post. But SerVaas seems more interested in profit than...