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Andrew F. Brimmer, chairman of the now defunct advisory committee that formed the institute two years ago, is the chairman of the nine-man fundraising committee...
...seeking answers to the growing violence, TIME in knee-jerk fashion turns to the defunct and discredited psychiatrists. Psychiatrist Ziporyn attributes the growing violence to a "... moving from a time of restraints back to total liberty...
...good guy in the story is Clay Felker, editor of all three magazines. Felker took over New York, originally the Sunday supplement to the now defunct New York Herald-Tribune, when that newspaper folded in 1968, and made it into the model for slick magazines centering around a particular city. He made money too--revenues of $26 million last year. But Felker started New West last year, and spent about $2 million more than the allotted $1 million budgeted for the magazine's first year of publication; the result was four straight quarters in the red. New York stock, with...
Serendipitous Supper. Last month Douglass Cater, who directs the institute's communications program and once served as Washington editor of the now defunct Reporter magazine, was dining in London with an old friend, Observer Contributor Kenneth Harris. "Do you know anyone with a few million to spare?" Harris asked. The Observer, it turned out, had been losing as much as $1 million a year and recently laid off one-third of its staff. The paper's owners, heirs of the second Lord Astor, were willing to hand over control to the right investor. Cater telephoned the Aspen Institute...
...wolf man is dead!" So wrote Broadway Bard Damon Runyon on the front page of the now defunct New York Daily Mirror as he led a nationwide chorus of ghoulish jubilation over the 1936 electrocution of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, convicted kidnaper of the infant son of Charles Lindbergh. Four decades later a forthcoming book, Scapegoat (Putnam), by Anthony Scaduto, a longtime crime reporter for the New York Post, argues that Hauptmann was innocent. Scaduto says he has unearthed police documents showing not only that someone other than Hauptmann cashed in most of the ransom certificates but that the authorities suppressed...