Word: harrison
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...editorship of the magazine will be run a a "collegial" or collective basis, Peretz said, noting that the magazine had "become all too predictable" because Harrison "ran it as a one-man show...
Peretz's comments came in the wake of the resignation Wednesday of Gilbert A. Harrison as editor-in-chief of the New Republic. Harrison sold the magazine to Peretz last fall, but had intended to stay on as editor until...
...resignation of Harrison came after "a lengthy negotiation," Peretz stated, saying that his departure resulted from a tense situation in which "one man sold a magazine, and then stayed on to run it." Asked whether Harrison will maintain any advisory connection with the New Republic, Peretz replied...
...Martin Peretz, 35, a maverick-leftist lecturer in social science at Harvard with a rich wife (Singer sewing machines) and an activist's belief in redistributing wealth. At the time of the purchase, press observers expected early trouble for the former owner and still editor, Gilbert Harrison, 59, a high-minded, unabrasive, older-style liberal and leader in the antiwar and "Dump L.B.J." movements...
Last week trouble abruptly surfaced. Peretz, just before departing for a two-week holiday in Spain, admitted that "there have been tensions" between him and Harrison about "how the magazine should move" but denied that he had stripped Harrison of the power to assign articles. Harrison was ducking reports of his impending departure. Said one knowledgeable source: "It's a bad situation." At week's end Harrison was still in charge, but chances are that the old New Republic will never be quite the same again...