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In the four months since Willie Morris resigned as editor in chief at Harper's, Chairman John Cowles Jr. and Publisher William Blair have examined a list of nearly 100 names in the search for a successor. They talked to about 25 men, including several well known to the...
The latest book is filled with the favorite Buckley gambit,: proof by non-sequitur. The idea is to make a proposition and then surreptitiously prove it by some trivial argument which you present as an aside but which actually takes up most of the piece. Johnson's State of the...
Died. Harry F. Guggenheim, 80, philanthropist and industrialist, who with his wife founded Long Island's Newsday and turned it into the largest suburban daily (circ. 455,501) in the U.S.; in Sands Point, N.Y. Scion of a wealthy mining family, Guggenheim devoted his early years to the family...
As an editor, Morris acts more as a filter than an originator of ideas, but his greatest strength is in understanding, in Halberstam's words, "writers' prerogatives, what they feel, what they are, what is important to them." Often what is most important to them is to be...
Other questions: Will the heirs now sell their remaining 49% to the West Coast publishing giant? Answer: Not likely, at least for some time. Question: Will Newsday's new owners bring the paper into Manhattan to compete against the only afternoon daily, the New York Post? Answer: "Good Lord...