Word: murdock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Corporation promptly appointed a retired Boston banker, Harold Murdock, director, making Pottinger his assistant. Murdock a book collector and fancier of fine printing, imported the world famous designer, Bruce Rogers, as printing adviser to the Press. Soon the Harvard University Press became equal to the old, Commercial University Press in fame for masterly editions. Pottinger worked closely with Rogers, and when outside duties slowly took Rogers more and more away from the Press, Pottinger did most of the designing. And it is generally conceded that under Pottinger's aegis the Press' reputation far from diminished...
...difficulty that Murdock faced, with two such excellent designers and managers, was that of finances. Robert Bacon '80, a partner in J. P. Morgan, had verbally promised Lane $50,000, but when he died in France during the First World War he left no will. His estate did not recognize the bequest and by 1920, funds were running low. The policy of printing beautiful editions of books with limited sales appeal meant that the Press was laden with equal parts honor and deficit. As is the case with all university printing plants, the Printing Office was self-supporting, and even...
...Press went alone until November, 1933, when ill health forced Murdock's retirement. David Pottinger again took over as acting director until January, 1936, when Dumas Malone was called in to take over, and once again Pottinger accepted the position of associate director. This situation laster until, after repeated requests by Pottinger and the successive directors, the Corporation voted to split the Press from the Printing office, and let it continue with policies set over the years of its association with the Press, except for the abolition of Murdock's ten per cent nest-egg that had, with generally lowered...
...every year brought an increase in the number of published titles. Since the star of the arts and letters was waning in comparison to the newer "sciences," there was not a sufficient number of manuscripts to meet the dates without turning to new sources. So the trend began under Murdock...
...Holdover board members are Utah's ex-Senator Abe Murdock, Democrat, and Ivar Peterson, Independent.) Farmer, now the board's chairman, chalked up a sizable record of dissents while Democrats were still in the majority, though he occasionally sided with them. Said he: "When you reach this place, your job is to submerge your ideology in favor of the law as it's written...