Three chairs stood empty at the directors' meeting of the Curtis Publishing Co. in Philadelphia last week. They belonged to ill and aging Mary Curtis Bok Zimbalist, 85, daughter of the late Cyrus H.K. Curtis, who founded the company 71 years ago; to her son, Gary Bok, 57, who was also too ill to attend the meeting; and to President Robert E. MacNeal, 58, who was traveling in Europe. But even if all three had been there, the Curtis family and officers of the proud old company would have been in the minority—a position they had to accept last April when...
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