Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...entire Nixon staff began to sound like a nest of singing canaries, the long-awaited resignations started to come. Jeb Stuart Magruder, the deputy campaign director, quit his Commerce Department post Thursday night, and L. Patrick Gray, the much-maligned acting director of the FBI, bailed out yesterday morning...
...Leader had published an exaggerated exposé that portrayed the college's scruffy students as rich freaks who spent more time at drug and sex orgies than at their books. The notoriety so unnerved the trustees that they fired the president. Before long, half the 40-member faculty quit and a third of the 240 students withdrew. Insurance companies suddenly canceled policies. Worried creditors soon forced the college into voluntary bankruptcy...
...Esquire Editor Harold T.P. Hayes, after spending 17 successful years with the magazine, suddenly quit last week only months before he was to succeed Publisher Arnold Gingrich. The reason: Hayes refused to surrender editorial responsibility in taking over the publisher's role. Gingrich pronounced himself "bitterly disappointed" by the resignation. "He was my boy," said Gingrich of his 46-year-old protege. Gingrich, who must officially give up his title when he turns 70 in December, now plans to act as publisher indefinitely. Hayes' successor: Executive Editor Don Erickson...
...Burdock, 45. His predecessor, Wilson Hirschfeld, was fired after a stream of complaints from reporters that he was killing or slanting stories to protect friends in the city administration. Hirschfeld, a Christian Scientist, also tried to reduce the paper's medical coverage. Fraser Kent, a respected medical reporter, quit in disgust, for this and other reasons. There was also bitterness over management's appeal for police assistance when Newspaper Guild members picketed the paper during a strike last October. Since December alone, six reporters and editors have left. The reporting staff is down to 41 from a peak...
This is an odd, shrewd book, whose quality is suggested by the reader's strong feeling at the end that Sheed's only real mistake was to quit writing about 200 pages short of his natural stopping place...