Malcolm Muir (1885 – January 30, 1979) was a

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Biography

Muir was born in

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. He served as president of McGraw-Hill Publishing from 1928 to 1937. During his tenure as president, he helped create ''

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'' magazine in 1929, the same year that McGraw-Hill stock was publicly traded for the first time. The first issue of ''The Business Week'', the original title of ''BusinessWeek'', was published on September 7, 1929, a mere seven weeks before the stock market crash that signalled the beginning of the

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. Muir is quoted as saying: "''The Business Week'' will never be content to be a mere chronicle of events. It aims always to interpret their significance ... ''The Business Week'' always has a point of view, and usually a strong opinion, both of which it does not hesitate to express. And all the way through, we hope you will discover it is possible to write sanely and intelligently of business without being pompous or ponderous." Muir served as the

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and president of ''

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'' magazine between 1937 and 1959. He was responsible for changing the four-year-old ''News-Week'' magazine's name to ''Newsweek'' and introducing international editions. He was named honorary chairman of the board when the

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bought the magazine in 1961. Muir died in 1979 in

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from stomach disease, pneumonia and old age. Sarah Lucille Turner, who had been one of the first women elected to the

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, became Muir's secretary while he was president of

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. After a hiatus she returned to work for him at ''Newsweek'', eventually becoming the magazine's personnel director.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Muir, Malcolm 1885 births 1979 deaths Newsweek people American magazine publishers (people) Businesspeople from New York City 20th-century American businesspeople