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...rebel leaders were identified as Editor in Chief Clay Blair Jr., 39, and Marvin D. Kantor, 37, head of the company's magazine division and a relative newcomer to Curtis. The man they were out to topple was President and Board Chairman Matthew J. Culligan, 46, brought in by Curtis in 1962 to lead the company back to recovery. Last May, the Times reported, Blair and Kantor had aired their grievances before the board. But when this maneuver failed, the dissidents sought to spread the rebellion. In September, Blair convoked a secret meeting at a steakhouse outside Greenwich, Conn...
...Curtis' editorial and economic crisis, Blair was ready to blame Adman Culligan. "Joe Culligan," said he, "is a great guy to know-after 5:30." Blair succeeded in selling this view to Marvin Kantor, one of two new men placed on Curtis' board by a group of Wall Street investors in 1962. Kantor had been a partner in J. R. Williston & Beane, the brokerage firm that was shattered last December after tankfuls of vegetable oils, supposed to be one of its principal assets, proved to be nonexistent...
...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...
...Sica, he popped around to Miss Porter's hotel room to confer with her on the script. In Mexico, he was also collecting impressions for his script of Children of Sanchez. Soon he will be in Georgia and Mississippi soaking up attitudes for his version of MacKinlay Kantor's Anders onville and William Faulkner's Light in August...