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Such total commitment is rare, but there are many examples of effective effort. In Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley last summer, Dr. Curtis Stevens, a white psychologist, opened his backyard swimming pool to Negro children, and was soon playing host to two shifts a day, five days a week...
Attempting to reverse its sliding fortunes, the Curtis Publishing Co. last week got down to business by electing a new president: Martin Ackerman, 36.
Aside from the recent acquisition of Popular Library, a paperback book company, Ackerman has had no publishing experience. His business is the salvation of troubled firms. A native of Rochester and a graduate of Syracuse University and Rutgers Law School, he became a partner in the New York City law...
Post Possibilities. Ackerman was called in by Curtis because it had been unable to meet its bank-loan payments in March. To get an extension of its $12,170,000 loan from its creditors, chiefly the First National Bank of Boston, Curtis had to agree to a change in management...
Ackerman has not yet said publicly what his plans are, but he has indicated that he plans to deal decisively with the company's biggest money loser, the Saturday Evening Post. One course of action he has discussed with Curtis is discontinuing the magazine; another possibility is removing it...