5 MORE MEN QUIT HARPER'S; CITE 'MONEY-LITERARY' FIGHT

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01314R000100620015-1
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 25, 2004
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: March 11, 1971
• Content Type: NSPR

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he 'I ltey-..,iterary' Fight,
New York, March 10 (rl'-h'iveguided the 121-year-old maga-
top staff members of Harper's zinc since 1967, resigned last
magazine--the nation's oldest- week in what lie characterized
resigned today in the wake of as a losing fight in the battle
the resignation last week of between "the Money men and
their editor in chief. the literary nmen."
The resignations followed a "The money men have been
meeting of the editors with the undercutting the product for the
magazine company's chairman, past two years," Mr. Hasher
John Cowles, Jr., according tostam said.
David Halberstam, a contrihut- Harper's circulation has fal-
ing editor. len from 325,000 to 300,000 in the
Mr, Halberstam, a Pulitzer past year, while its chief rival,
Prize winner and former cor- The Atlantic, has gained 25,000
respondent of the New York readers for a total of 325,000.
Times, acted as spokesman fort Those resigning said Mr.
his colleagues. Cowles had not.faulted Mr. Mor-
Cowles Silent ris for giving most of the cur-
Mr. Cowles, president of the rent issue to an essay on wom-
Minneapolis Star and 'T'ribune en's liberation by Norman Mail-.
Company, had flown in from or. It had been reported when'
Minneapolis for the meeting. lie Mr. Morris resigned that they
left immediately and said after- long Mailer. piece, with its
-ward in Minneapolis that he hadlcarthy, sexually explicit langu-
no comment. age, had in effect been 'a final
The decision to quit, Mr. Hal- straw.
berstarn said, came at the meet- "Nobody Knows"
ing in the apartment of the man- Mr. Morris said Mr. Kotlo-
aging editor, Robert Kotlowitz, witz would stay on to see that,
't'hose resigning, he said, were the magazine's next issue cotnes)
himsblf, Mr. Kotlow?itz and .Iohnjout, but after that, "nobody
Corry, Marshall Frady and Lar- knows."
ry L. King. "We did not meet in acri-
Another contributing editor, many," Mr. Halberstam said,;
Lewis Lapham. was going to "but to sec if there was anyl
join them but had second chance of saving the magazine.
thoughts and still is tcntbbtively There wasn't."
with Horper's, Mr. Halborstaml He described the meeting as
said. - hopeless and said Mr. Cowles
12I Years Old "kept citing the Oliver Quayle
The editor in chief, Willie for-poll to show. that we weren't
ris, a Mississippian who had getting the readers."
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