	business editor offers dlrs for harper hpr theodore cross editor of business and society review a business publication said an investor group he heads has offered to buy harper and row publishers inc for dlrs a share cash in a filing with the securities and exchange commission cross said he proposed the takeover to the board of the new york publishing house today cross whose investor group includes his wife mary said they already hold harper and row common shares or pct of the total outstanding common stock they said they have spent mln dlrs on their stake so far cross said he proposed in a letter to harper and row that the company be merged into a company cross is forming suggesting that the total cost of completing the merger would be mln dlrs cross said he would use mln dlrs of his own money for the deal and up to mln dlrs which would be borrowed from the first national bank of boston under a revolving credit facility the bank has agreed to provide 
