The Press: Hang-Up at Harper's

"I don't feel the professional life of an editor ought to last a whole lifetime," said Willie Morris some time after he became editor in chief of Harper's in 1967. "Ten years is long enough." As it turned out, his tenure lasted less than four. Last week Morris submitted his resignation, and he was amazed to have it quickly accepted.

Morris departed with a new and bitter aphorism: "It all boiled down to the money men and the literary men. And, as always, the money men won." At Harper's, which has run in the red...

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