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Every month, Psychology Today (circ. 1.1 million) tells Americans all they might want to know about sex, psychosurgery, biofeedback, insomnia, ultradian rhythms-indeed the whole galaxy of behavioral phenomena, from alienation to Zen. The magazine's success is due largely to its editor in chief and resident visionary since 1969, T (for nothing) George Harris. He turned a jargon-pocked and profitless publication into a Popular Mechanics of human behavior-eminently readable, visually stimulating and worth more than $2 million a year in net profit for its present owner, Ziff-Davis Publishing Co., which bought the magazine...
Last week Ziff-Davis confirmed that Harris has been fired. Neither side would talk openly about the psychic trauma, but Harris' problem seemed to be one of style rather than substance. A former TIME writer and bureau chief and Look senior editor, Kentucky-born...
Yale-educated Harris, 51, was hired by Publisher Nicholas Charney in 1968 to edit the short-lived Careers Today, and soon took over the ailing Psychology Today. Harris stayed on as editor when the magazine was sold to Boise Cascade in 1969, when it was later sold to Ziff-Davis, and even when it was moved last year from sunny Del Mar, Calif., where its beachside editorial conferences were renowned, to Manhattan...
Determined to operate on its own disciplined terms, Ziff-Davis offered Harris a raise, a car and a kick upstairs to the job of associate publisher-and fired him when he refused to ascend. He is being replaced as editor by Wesley First, a Ziff-Davis vice president. Says Harris, who has no immediate plans: "The vice presidents couldn't tolerate an editor who was unmanageable. We have a different set of values...
Katherine Fanning's Anchorage Daily News has a circulation of 15,500, a staff of 20 (including the receptionist) and an editor-publisher who, until her husband died in 1971 and left her in command, could have rated herself as little more than a cub reporter. The morning daily does not have its own presses, rarely runs more than 20 pages an issue and has long been overshadowed by its afternoon competitor, the Times (circ. 45,000). Yet last week Fanning's tiny paper edged out some of the nation's leading dailies to win journalism...