Word: founder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blame on timid advertisers frightened off by the magazine's iconoclasm. This is true in part; its contents encourage people to imagine a CIA operative behind every bush-or a Kennedy assassin. But Ramparts has had plenty of other troubles. After a furious intramural spat, it ousted Founder-Publisher Edward Keating. Total adulation of the Black Power movement, plus an article blaming the Middle East war on Israel, caused two other wealthy backers of the magazine to withdraw support...
Alan P. Symonds '69, founder of the Bwana Bus and Light Company which does technical work for over half of Harvard's productions, received raucus acclaim for his efforts to obtain the lighting equipment. Robert V. Edgar '69, in his welcome speech, immortalized Symonds with the following lines: "Dunster lay in universal night; God said 'Let Symonds be' and there was light...
...mere thought of writing a book on a subject that the late James Thurber tackled should produce writer's block in any author now living. Thurber's The Years with Ross was an epitaph that the volatile and volubly profane founder and editor of The New Yorker would himself have pronounced definitive. Jane Grant has one advantage, and only one, that Thurber lacked: she was Ross's first wife (of three) and helped him start The New Yorker. In fact, she says openly what too many wives secretly believe about their husband's successes: "He would...
...publisher. His main activities were directed not toward books, but toward magazines; they paid a set amount for each article or story, the agent got his 10% cut, and the deal was finished. Arrangements with book publishers were considered a nuisance. Paul Reynolds, 64-year-old son of the founder of the venerable Paul Reynolds agency, recalls that his father declined to represent Novelist Willa Cather because he wanted nothing to do with checking periodic royalty statements from her publisher...
Mungo, who now lists his address as Washington, D.C., is the founder and editor of the Liberation News Service, an organization he claims has over four million readers but no money...