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Disquieting rumors eddied through the quiet corridors of slick, Hearst-owned Town & Country. There was talk of a staff shakeup, a new editor perhaps, and possibly a change in policy. Last week a fact filtered down from the seat of empire at San Simeon: the resignation of slight, bright Editor Henry Adsit Bull, 42, had been accepted, "with reluctance...
Faced like other publishers with increased costs and lowered profit margins, Mike Cowles decided two months ago that Look could get along with fewer hobbies. In a major shakeup, Editor Harlan Logan's pet projects-and 75 staffers, including the entire crew of Look books-were dropped...
Behind the drastic shakeup, which lopped 80 names off the Sun's payroll last week, was a drastic decision. For five long years, silver-maned, gold-lined Publisher Field had patiently pumped his millions into his losing battle with the mighty Chicago Tribune, and the Trib had neither reformed nor weakened (in fact, the same day the Sun fired 80, the Trib gave its white-collar staff of 1,589 a blanket 20% raise). Field had many millions left, but he was tired of spending them. His ultimatum: the Sun must shine by itself...
...host of writers, editors, film directors and play producers who have veered away from the party line onto primrose paths "where interests of the party were made victims of personal interests and general self-praise." The magazine Leningrad has been suspended, the Writers' Union given a thorough shakeup. A million-ruble movie, The Monogrammed Diary, was spirited away without a trace, after one viewing by the Cinema Ministry. Even the prestigious, semi-official Izvestia was scolded for printing the news straight, leaving the reader "to grope his way through international problems without guidance...
...years, continued chaos resolved itself into a government shakeup, and mild, aristocratic General Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona became President. This besashed and epauletted figurehead (still President in name today) made Salazar Minister of Finance, with extraordinary powers, which he used to make himself dictator of the nation...