Richard J. Durrell (ca. 1925 – March 7, 2008) was an American advertising executive and one of the founding staff members for ''

People A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of proper ...

'' magazine.''Founder of People Magazine
from a

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Tw ...

website Durrell turned down an offer to play baseball for the

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franchise in order to attend the

, from which he was graduated in 1948. For most of his career he worked for

Time Inc. Time Inc. was an American worldwide mass media corporation founded on November 28, 1922, by Henry Luce and Briton Hadden and based in New York City. It owned and published over 100 magazine brands, including its namesake ''Time'', ''Sports Illu ...

, retiring in 1983. In his retirement years, he occasionally taught a course titled "Magazine Publication and Related Communications" at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut. He was married to Jacquelyn Carmen (Dow) Durrell, a former Connecticut State Representative and First Selectman of Fairfield.

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1920s births 2008 deaths American magazine publishers (people) University of Minnesota alumni Sacred Heart University faculty 20th-century American businesspeople {{US-business-bio-1920s-stub