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...Herbert J. Vallier Knows what he's up against...
Ginsberg credits the Beat writer Herbert Huncke with transmitting the notion in the late 1940s through autobiographical reminiscences, later anthologized as The Evening Sun Turned Crimson. In one story the teenage Huncke watched the police bust a hermaphrodite junkie in a seedy hotel. "The tolerance of the kid was juxtaposed with the brutality of the cops," says Ginsberg. "The sympathetic observer, Huncke, became an exemplary illustration of what was hip." Huncke's own take on the idea is a bit darker. "It meant," he recalls, "a certain awareness of everything most people were frightened of speaking of, or of admitting...
According to several sources, QVC's subsequent offer included a cash buyout of CBS, a move CBS declined. Then Diller, with Lipton and Herbert Allen of Allen & Co., whom Danny Tisch calls "the real financial architects of this transaction," rejiggered the proposal as a merger between equal parties. "Around June 10," recalls Danny, "we sat down -- my father, my brother Jimmy, who is executive vice president at Loews, and I -- with Marty Lipton. We didn't really come up with any negatives...
...what police sources termed a move to bring a fresh perspective to the department, Herbert J. Vallier, a former associate director of personnel services for the Faculty, took over the post of Brian D. Sinclair--who had been the department's assistant director for finance and administration--last month. Vallier is known as a sensitive, but tough administrator...
Stepping into a department that has been plagued by administrative problems, Herbert J. Vallier took over as assistant director for finance and administration for the Harvard police last week...