Word: felkerism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Schiff has dangled the paper before a long procession of prospective buyers. Among them: Eleanor Roosevelt, Thread Heir and Nation Editor Blair Clark, Post Editorial Page Editor James Wechsler, New York Magazine Editor Clay Felker. "It's her way of flirting," says Felker. This year she became serious. Among the possible reasons: the specter of afternoon competition from the News-or from Murdoch, who had been telling associates he might launch his own New York daily if he could not get the Post; Schiff's conclusion that her daughter, Post Assistant Publisher Adele Hall Sweet, would never fill...
Three years ago Murdoch moved his headquarters to Manhattan, took a Fifth Avenue duplex, and enrolled his three children in local private schools. Clay Felker brought Schiff and Murdoch back together again at his home and, over lunch last September, Murdoch made her an offer. "I won't say how much," he says, "but we didn't get around to it until after coffee...
...nothing to reinforce a fireman's positive image about himself." To change that, Smith decided to find a publisher and start his own magazine. A friend introduced him to Bull, who had wanted to get out of the Voice ever since New York magazine's Clay Felker took it over...
Even more puzzling, given Rosenbaum's known antipathies to Felkerism, is Kramer's choice of master cosmetician, or design director, as they are known in these circles. In charge of the new layout is Milton Glaser, about as close an associate as Felker has--design director for both The Voice and New York, as well as chairman and vice-chairman of various Felker publishing companies. Glaser's work is appropriately glossy--with the ever-legitimizing Marlboro Man on the back cover and an uninspired Spiro Agnew elongation on the front, plus a new logo without the brackets--since [MORE...
...while the whiff of conspiracy emanating from all these Felker connections may be only that, a whiff, the content of [MORE]'s new issue gives off such a stench of conspiracy that you'll forget mere takeover theories. Foremost on the list of subjects is Spiro Agnew, who would still be in prison were it not for plea-bargainers in the Justice Department like Elliot Richardson. Instead, Spiro the Kickbacker is on the bestseller list, with a novel charging, among other rantings and ravings, that a Jewish cabal controls the media and exerts extreme pro-Zionist influence on American foreign...