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...Donna Kalikow, who served as Myers’ deputy with a focus on marketing and development, will now lead the center as executive director...
...program said they thought the HUDS arrangement reflected the symbolism of the holiday. “On Yom Kippur, when we choose to fast, it’s important that we think about all the people who have to fast everyday,” according to participant Brett M. Kalikow...
Hamilton had been noticeably dry-eyed back in January, when bankrupt Post owner Peter Kalikow unloaded the guns-'n'-buns tabloid on shadowy New York financier Steven Hoffenberg. At the time, Hoffenberg was under federal investigation for fraud. Even so, Hoffenberg had initially seemed an acceptable owner to most of the future Post mutineers. Hoffenberg hired as his editor Pete Hamill, the open-necktie Post alumnus whom he paid $500,000 a year to reprise his long-running I'm-just-a-working-class-stiff...
McAlary's own paper was in even worse financial shape than the News. Press tycoon Rupert Murdoch, who bought the Post in 1976, lost about $150 million in a dozen years before caving in. The latest would-be savior was Peter Kalikow, like Zuckerman a real estate lord, who ran down the circulation (from 550,000 to about 438,000), threw his real estate holdings into bankruptcy and exacted a 20% pay cut from his staff before finally putting the paper up for sale. Answering the call was Hoffenberg, whose millions come from "financial services," in this case buying other...
Never mind all that, says Hoffenberg, a self-styled "nice guy from Brooklyn," who explains that his troubles were merely "technical violations." In any case, he wants to make the Post a going business. He has already made good on his promise to reinstate half of Kalikow's salary cuts and hopes to bolster the bottom line by using his 1,000-member sales force as advertising salespeople. He won't interfere in editorial matters, he insists. "The creative side, that's not my job. I have enough to do on the publishing side," although he wants to write...