Word: kantor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when the dissident group demanded the ouster of Curtis President Matthew J. Culligan, the board has met at least half a dozen times in a vain search for a comprehensive solution to the company's problems. The rebel leaders, Editor in Chief Clay Blair Jr. and Marvin D. Kantor, head of the magazine division, were first suspended, then fired. Both stayed on Curtis' board-and last week both brought suit against Curtis for the unpaid balance of their contracts, which have two more years to run. The suit is directed against Curtis, the First National Bank of Boston...
...holes left by Kantor and Blair-and by the four editorial hands who have resigned, among them two assistant managing editors of the Saturday Evening Post-the directors did not fill them at a meeting last week...
...Decision. Together, Blair and Kantor constructed a case against Culligan-some of it trivial. They objected, for example, to the sumptuous private suite that Culligan keeps at Manhattan's St. Regis Hotel for late evenings in town-and for which Curtis is billed...
...operations." But President Joe Culligan was still to be heard from. With the powerful support of Boston Banker Serge Semenenko, who put together the consortium of banks that saved Curtis last year, Culligan ripped the whole thing wide open again as he lashed back at his foes. Blair and Kantor, he decreed, were henceforth "relieved from all duties" and "placed on inactive status with temporary leaves of absence pending further action...
Action there will surely be as the rebellion rages on. Next week a special, board-appointed investigating committee is scheduled to consult and report on the validity of the Blair-Kantor charges against Culligan...