The Nation - News from July 29, 1987

The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ board of trustees, after a yearlong search, named retiring Time Inc. executive Ralph P. Davidson as president and chief executive officer. Chairman Roger L. Stevens, 77, who led the fund raising to build the Washington center and has guided its programming since it opened in 1971, will hold the title of founder chairman. Davidson, 59, will quit as chairman of Time Inc.’s executive board to join the center Feb. 1, 1988.