HARCOURT GENERAL CEO TO LECTURE ON PUBLISHING
	CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., March 28 -- Robert J. Tarr Jr.,
president and chief executive officer of Harcourt General, will
present the annual Batten Media Lecture on Monday, April 3, at the
University of Virginia's Darden Graduate School of Business
Administration.
	 His 1:10 p.m. talk, in Room 210 of the Darden School, is
free and open to the public.
	Tarr, whose company is a leading publisher of books and
other written materials, will discuss "Content and Technology in
Publishing:  A Necessary Alliance."
	A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy who served as an
officer in the Navy's nuclear submarine service, Tarr has held
positions of increasing responsibility at Harcourt General since
joining the company in 1976. He earned an M.B.A. from Harvard
University and a master's degree from the Fletcher School of Law and
Diplomacy at Tufts University.
	The Batten Media Lecture series honors Frank Batten,
chairman of the board of Norfolk-based Landmark Communications, who
in 1988 established the Batten Fellowships for selected journalists
to study at the Darden School.
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March 27, 1995