Word: missner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...entertainment guide with a giveaway circulation of about 30,000. Its only competition was the Cambridge Phoenix, which was run by a radical collective and had a circulation of only 890. But seven months ago, Phoenix was bought by Ray Reipen, 35, a Harvard Law School graduate, and Richard Missner, 28, who has a degree from the Harvard Business School. They hired an able staff of ten newsmen and imported Harper Barnes, a reporter from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, as editor. Early this year Missner bought out his partner and proceeded to plow about...
Richard H. Missner, one of the two publishers who shared control of The Phoenix, bought out his partner. Ray Riepen, yesterday morning after a long struggle. Missner, who has been with the paper since April of last year, gained control of it, he said, "for a cash sum in five digits...
...staff is very happy about it," Editor Harper Barnes said yesterday. Members of The Phoenix staff willingly forfeited pay for the past two weeks in order to continue publishing the paper, and many vowed to resign if Missner was unable to buy out Riepen...
...dispute was primarily on a personal level." Missner said of the partnership. "We were not able to work together and I felt that he was destructive to the health of the paper...
...Missner created the network of street hawkers, which has been a factor in making The Phoenix Boston's largest selling newspaper. He also supplied most of the money throughout his partnership with Riepen...