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...Murdoch's most important new venture, the few changes wrought so far at the somnolent New York Post during his first week of ownership are mostly benign. He has picked a new editor: Australian-born TIME Senior Editor Edwin Bolwell, a former New York Timesman and Toronto Star managing editor. Murdoch has added a distinctive dark red banner across the top of the front page and banished ads from the first seven pages. Page six has been reserved for a mild stew of short, gossipy items?including last week's tongue-in-cheek rewrite of an Associated Press report that...
Rupert Murdoch, 45, the Australian-born press buccaneer, first met Dorothy Schiff, 73, the coquettish editor in chief and publisher of the New York Post, one afternoon about six years ago. "I rang her up, as fellow publishers tend to do," he recalls, "told her I was in town and would like to have a look at her plant." It was love at first sight. "I lusted after the Post," he says. So had many others. The oldest continuously published daily in the U.S., the Post (circ. 500,000) has been the only afternoon paper in the nation...
...Australian-born Terrill has written numerous articles for newspapers and magazines, appeared on television during former President Nixon's 1972 visit to China, and has written two books on China that, although praised by scholars, have made an impact on general readers as well...
While Terrill and other members of the Government Department yesterday cited the abundance of faculty already tenured in Chinese government--there are two professors under the aegis of the Government Department--as an explanation for the department's decision, the reasons for not offering tenure to the Australian-born scholar appear to go far deeper...
...Australian-born author has published more than a dozen books of fiction that have slowly earned her a reputation as one of the world's most skillful writers. Stead is a connoisseur of the seven deadly sins. She possesses a special genius for decorating the interior of a character's mind, no matter how pinched by wrath, avarice, sloth, pride, lust, envy or greed. Her masterpiece is The Man Who Loved Children (1940), the story of the unhappiest family dwelling in literature since the House of Atreus...