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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...
...same net, FBI men in New York had snared Ivan D. Egorov, 41, a member of the United Nations Secretariat, and his wife Aleksandra. They too were charged with espionage but were later swapped for the return of two Americans held by the Soviets - Jesuit Priest Walter Ciszek and Marvin W. Makinen, a Fulbright scholar from Asburnham, Mass. Was there another swap in the wind...
...Just like Television Actor Marvin Miller on CBS's The Millionaire, who doled out $1,000,000 a week for 298 richly melodramatic weeks before the sponsor's money...
...chance, and George Wallace, a racist with none, Wallace's supporters had started deserting him in droves. In Atlanta, where 100,000 had been expected to hear him speak, only 10,000 turned out. Even good friends joined in jumping the sinking ship. Georgia's ex-Governor Marvin Griffin, who had been helping to organize the Wallace-for-President campaign, now announced he would vote for Goldwater...