Word: curtises
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Benny the Bum. Myths endure, but their purveyors do not. Last week, after a century and a half of continuous publication, the Post came to an end. Readership had remained high in recent years, but costs rose higher and advertising revenues went down. Largely because of the Post's...
Over the years, the Post had proved so durable that it seemed death might never come. Oldtime editors rather liked the notion that the magazine was the direct descendant of a publication founded by Benjamin Franklin, even though they knew the claim was flawed.* Irreverently they nicknamed a Franklin bust...
Under Curtis' exuberant, free-spending management, the Post grew up with the century. It was the expansive age of oil and railroad fortunes and of Horatio Alger; young, middle-class men everywhere were ambitious, eager to make money. The Post captured their readership with such articles as "How I...
Too 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...
Any problems caused by a non-resident president would be handled by an executive secretary, a newly-invented post that will go to a Briggs Hall resident. The candidates for that office are Jill Curtis '71, and Luey D. Freedman '70. Miss Freedman regularly signs Cochran's interhouse slips. She...