Word: munro
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Clurman lets them reveal themselves in their own remarks and behavior: Nicholas as a bottom-line type who lusted for the merger (and the promised job of co-CEO) seemingly at any price; Munro as a backslapping cheerleader with a bent toward the banal and the four-letter word (with a grand retirement package awaiting); McManus as a beleaguered figure striving to salvage a degree of authority over the company's magazines and some esteem from his staffers while Brack belittles them by insisting that "the marketplace," not editors and thinkers, "should dictate what a magazine should...
...book is a penetrating and, to those who care about journalism, somewhat jarring account of the nuptials. But it is also negligent and in a way unfair to Munro, Nicholas & Co. in its failure to define the situation they inherited and the alternatives open to them. By the time they took over, the company had already become more than a little bit pregnant, a condition brought about by the preceding management team, led by Andrew Heiskell and Hedley Donovan, Luce's anointed successors. It was under that team that the company moved from straight journalism into flirtation with the glitzy...
They will be looking for a big year out of All-America candidate goalie Pat Flynn (9.00 goals-against-average, .634 save percentage), and the potent attack tandem of Darren Lowe and Oliver Marti who combined for 71 goals last year. Senior Neil Munro (22-20-42) could also provide some punch...
Some accounts named Levin as the chief organizer, working with the support of J. Richard Munro, a former Time Inc. CEO who retired in 1990, shortly after the merger with Warner Communications. But it was clear that chairman Ross, 64, though weakened by his cancer therapy, had nonetheless taken a major hand...
...Munro said the group plans to establish service projects where students would tutor Italian-American children and talk with elderly Italian immigrants in the North End and in Newton...