Word: grahame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Washington Post Chairman Eugene Meyer bought out the rival Times-Herald 25 years ago, he had more in mind than a quick circulation gain. "The real significance of this event," said Meyer, "is that it makes the paper safe for Donnie." Last week his grandson, Donald E. (for Edward) Graham, 33, did indeed take over as publisher of the now thriving (daily circulation: 562,000) paper...
...timing was a surprise, but the move itself was not unexpected. "It is because Don is ready and I am ready," Kay Graham told the staff. "Actually, I suspect Don was ready before I was ready." Mrs. Graham, 61, who had run the paper since her husband Philip's suicide in 1963, remains chairman, chief executive and majority stockholder of the Post Co., which also owns Newsweek, papers in Trenton, N.J., and Everett, Wash., and four TV stations...
...Graham showed an eye for opportunity and a taste for big-city journalism at the Harvard Crimson in 1966; when the Boston dailies were struck that year, Graham and his colleagues rushed out the Boston Crimson, a four-page paper that focused on local news and had a circulation of 30,000. After graduation and a tour as a specialist 5 Army information officer in the Viet Nam bush, Graham decided to learn about Washington by spending 18 months as a beat cop in a tough southeast neighborhood. At the Post, he has worked as reporter, salesman, night production manager...
Calkins' equivocation on the issue--and it appears that he has changed his mind--is indicative of the Corporation's attitudes that what students believe does not matter. Combined with the statements of Graham T. Allison Jr. '62, dean of the Kennedy School, Calkins' action reinforced a patter of refusa! to even consider the issues...