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...Peretz and Gilbert B. Harrison, owner and editor of the prestigious liberal weekly, have discussed the sale, but Peretz has not yet made a specific offer, Harrison said yesterday...
Harrison, who has been a friend of Peretz's since they both worked in the 1968 presidential campaign of former Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy, said that four people have approached him about buying the magazine and that he first discussed the matter with Peretz over a year...
...Peretz said before he left for Israel earlier this month that he has discussed the purchase with Harrison, but that "nothing has been settled...
...Peretz is now on a one-year renewable contract as a lecturer, and his three-year mastership contract expires at the end of the 1974-75 academic year...
Sources speculated yesterday that if Peretz bought The New Republic, he would either work full-time for the magazine or divide his time between lecturing at Harvard and working on The New Republic...