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Peretz's first year at The New Republic was also marked by conflict with his editor-in-chief Gilbert Harrison, ending with Harrison's resignation in January. It is not unusual that the new owner of a magazine should change the masthead. What is unusual is that Peretz and Harrison agreed to sell Peretz The New Republic for $380,000. Then they drew up an ill-conceived and ambiguous contract that allowed the former owner to stay on as editor-in-chief and that caused immediate quarrels over who would control the magazine...
Richard L. Strout '19, who writes under the column-head TRB for The New Republic (Strout says the title is the reverse of the initials of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit, hastily improvised under deadline years ago) says of the Peretz-Harrison arrangement, "I don't see how any same person would have thought it would last." The arrangement for Peretz to be Harrison's apprentice but also owner of the magazine was an "artificial situation with a built-in conflict," Strout says...
...clincher that gave Peretz final authority in the dispute was a clause saying "the seller will serve the buyer's best interests." The agreement was that Harrison would stay on for a three year grace period while Peretz learned the ropes. This arrangement, Peretz says, caused one of his friends, a "shrewd" businessman, to say, "This kind of two-headed monster will never last...
Rose: My Life in Service is a cut above such backstairs trivia. Rosina Harrison of Yorkshire was 30 years old when she became Lady Astor's personal maid in 1929. Her salary was about $300 a year, plus room, board and entertainment. There was plenty of the latter before Rose retired at Lady Astor's death in 1964. The lady had been born Nancy Langhorne of Danville, Va., the spirited daughter of a horse auctioneer. After divorcing her first husband, a Boston sporting man and alcoholic, Nancy took her young son to England. There, in 1906, she married...
...Rose Harrison exhibits a minimal interest in her lady's position in political history. In true Upstairs/ Downstairs tone, she is insufferably proud of knowing her place and downright snobbish about her ignorance. "Before we went to Italy," Rose recalls vaguely, "her ladyship spoke to me and told me not to mention the name Mussolini. I suppose he must have come to power not too long before that time...