Critics: Dear Kerr: You, Sir!

Of all the journalists thrown on the job market when the New York Herald Tribune was closed down for good during the city's newspaper strike, Drama Critic Walter Kerr, 53, who had held his post for 15 years, was surely the least worried about the future. While spending the summer lecturing at the Salzburg Seminar in American Studies, he was besieged with offers. Frank Conniff, editor of the still unpublished World Journal Tribune, even flew over to try to recruit him. But when the critic finally made up his mind last week,...