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Several years ago, a young friend and fellow liberal approached Gilbert Harrison, longtime editor-owner of the New Republic. "Gil," he said, "if you're ever thinking about the future of the magazine, I'm interested." Last week, after guiding NR through one-third of its intellectually rich and financially lean six decades, Harrison returned the friend's interest by placing NR's future in his hands. The new owner and editorial chairman: Harvard Social Scientist Martin Peretz, 34, advocate of leftish causes and angel of liberal Democratic candidates (Eugene McCarthy, George McGovern...
...independently wealthy Peretz, whose wife Anne has Singer Co. holdings, becomes NR's third owner since its founding in 1914. Since that time, NR has built an enviable reputation among U.S. intellectuals for its scholarly dissent and literate insights. Though its readership is solid (circ. 100,000) as well as influential, NR faces mounting postal and publishing costs. Recently the weekly has run at a small profit, which is unusual for opinion journals. But red ink is always a threat, and Harrison, 58, figured that it was time for a younger angel with a muscular bankroll...
Harrison is to stay on as editor for at least three years, but Peretz does not plan to be an absentee owner. He thinks that NR must toughen its liberalism with more aggressive, sharply argued opinions on issues now being exploited by conservatives-the Nixon Administration's defense and arms-limitation policies, Henry Kissinger's detente maneuvers with Peking and Moscow. Says Peretz: "There is a conservative offensive in this country, and we don't know how to respond...
Free Beer. One creative exploit led to another in a can-you-topless-this spirit of competition. At the University of South Carolina, a streaker entered the campus library and asked to check out The Naked Ape. Responding to a Knoxville tavern owner's offer of a free supply of beer to the first coed who would pick it up in the nude, a shapely lass wearing only her makeup darted into the bar and with an armload of beer rushed out again to a waiting car. Two students staged a relay across a bridge in Portland...
...good story, but any Yablans story can be topped by another one. For instance, on Christmas Day 1972, he tongue-lashed the owner of the Washington, D.C., theater where The Godfather was playing just after the poor man had been released from an intensive-care unit following a heart attack. His offense: undercharging the public by $2 a ticket...