Word: shepley
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lamont Library: Built in 1947 and designed by the Shepley office, the same group that designed Harvard's colonial Houses, Lamont is Harvard's first modern building...
VANSERG HALL was hastily built in 1943 by the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development as a radar laboratory. The architectural firm of Coolidge, Shepley, Bullfinch and Abbott, which under one name or another designed all the River Houses, departed from the neo-Georgian elegance that characterized their earlier work for Harvard and put together a plain three-story structure with a flat roof and red shingles...
...been circulating for a decade. Legions of readers and advertisers had defected, pushing losses to intolerable levels. But the Washington Star gamely hung on, and in 1978 it got a reprieve: Time Inc. bought the paper for $20 million and pledged $60 million for its revitalization. Said James R. Shepley, then Time Inc.'s president and later chairman of the board of the Star: "It is vitally important that the greater Washington area continue to have the services of two strong newspapers." But last week, after an expenditure of $85 million and after-tax losses of $35 million...
...Finally, Shepley approached the Post two months ago and proposed that the two papers combine printing operations while maintaining separate editorial staffs.* After five discussions, the idea was abandoned. Says Shepley: "They had projections of profit margins and benefits to their paper that they wanted to ensure. We weren't able to work out a way to meet their requirements and at the same time to sustain the Star...
During the eleven-year tenure of Heiskell and Shepley, Time Inc. has grown rapidly and diversified broadly. In the past three years alone, it acquired Inland Container, American Television and Communications Corp. (the nation's second largest cable-TV company), Book-of-the-Month Club and the Washington Star, relaunched LIFE and converted FORTUNE from a monthly to a fortnightly. In October the company will introduce a new science magazine, DISCOVER...