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...After Lapham took over, the magazine continued in a holding pattern until January, when Lapham's "Letter to the Reader" hinted at the changes to come. He addressed the "aura of intellectual defeat" surrounding national magazines dealing in ideas, and advanced the profound observation that "fewer and fewer people find the time to even glance at the papers...
...practice time for the worst football team in the Ivy League and the music in the trainer's room switches from "Rock the Casbah" to Yale fight songs. Somehow, Lapham Field House in front of the Yale Bowl hasn't yet been converted into a morgue, or some other purpose appropriate for the worst Eli squad in the school's history...
Ever since Harper's Editor Lewis Lapham, 46, announced his resignation last month, the troubled 131-year-old monthly (circ: 336,000) has been engaged in an intense head-hunting expedition. Last week the search committee, headed by Rutgers English Professor Richard Poirier, chose Lapham's replacement: Michael Kinsley, 30, Harvard graduate, lawyer and an editor since 1976 of the New Republic (circ. 97,000). Says Harper's Publisher David Michaels: "He is young, and he was the one person we saw who seemed to present any solid opinion about what we should do for the magazine...
...owners of Harper's plan to retain Editor Lewis Lapham, 45, and hope to return the magazine to solvency by converting it to a nonprofit organization, which will bring tax breaks and reduced postal rates. MacArthur family members note that John D. saved a money loser called Theater Arts magazine in 1950. Its editor was his older brother, Newsman-Playwright Charles MacArthur, who wrote The Front Page...
...Lapham, 45, a cerebral ex-newspaperman from San Francisco, tried to retrain Harper's eye on important public issues, setting the tone with a crotchety column of his own. The magazine was proudly provocative, billing itself "the battlefield of the mind." Some readers found it overly contentious and occasionally stale. The cover story for the August-and final-issue, for example, is on television evangelism, a worthy topic but one long since worked over by other magazines. Still, Harper's is a voice that will be missed. As Lapham says, "Its closing chips a little away from...