Word: storrow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years, Publisher George C. Kirstein had been shelling out his own money to keep the liberal weekly Nation alive. As a staffer put it, "It was time for a new charity." Last week James J. Storrow Jr., 49, a Bostonian who has made a small fortune from film and food companies, took over the burden from Kirstein. "The posture of a dissenter is not a profitable one," the new publisher conceded. "One does not grow rich by shooting sacred cows...
...Storrow is unlikely to shoot the Nation's own sizable herd of sacred cows. "I've never met a man with whom I've shared so many ideas," says Kirstein of his successor. Storrow boasts no publishing experience beyond his trial run in putting out the Nation's 100th anniversary issue last summer. Yet so uncharacteristically sleek was that 336-page effort that Storrow may be just the man to make dollars out of dissent. He feels confident that he can double circulation to 60,000 within 18 months and show a modest profit-the first...
Last month's incident has prompted the MDC Police and the University to act again. Dean Watson has been discussing the problem with MDC Commissioner Howard Whit-more. They have decided to put a spotlight on the footbridge that crosses Storrow Drive, to examine the present lighting of Weeks Bridge, and to install, on the north side of the river, an emergency telephone, with a direct line to the Basin station of the MDC Police...
However, he stated that the imminent opening of the Massachusetts turnpike into Boston on a route roughly parallel to Memorial Drive and Storrow Drive obviated all need to make such changes...
Once again Walton and Mrs. Kennedy went over the elaborate workbooks prepared by the architects, and now they began traveling to meet each of the men they were considering for the job. Louis Kahn, whom Walton remembers as "leprechaunish," drew a plan of a platform stretching across Storrow Drive, with the library to be built atop the platform; Mies van der Rohe suggested a similar concept. Bunshaft, whose Beinecke at Yale was the only libray any of the architects submitted in their workbooks, was considered carefully. (When Walton and Mrs. Kennedy visited Yale to talk with Paul Rudolph they found...