Word: australian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...where most of this weekend's big sporting events will be. On Saturday, you'll be able to catch the Aetna World Cup tennis tournament, pitting the best players from the United States against the worst players from lower Silesia and Serbo-Croatia. Actually, they'll be fighting an Australian contingent depleted by a skiing injury to John Newcombe...
...thing about the invasion of Manhattan by Rupert Murdoch, the Australian press lord, is that so far the newspaper most improved by his arrival is not his Post but its tabloid rival the New York Daily News. Though it still has the largest daily circulation of any American paper, the News's circulation has been going down. Under the editorship of Michael O'Neill, it has forsworn its vulgar and unreliable ways. It covers serious news seriously, where once it was prejudiced and superficial. Yet in becoming a better paper, it lost some of its raffishness and bracing...
...sale of the Star Co. is only the latest in a recent epidemic of high-priced newspaper transactions. Australian Rupert Murdoch late last year paid more than $30 million for the New York Post. Gannett Co. is acquiring the 13-paper Speidel chain for $173 million. In perhaps the largest newspaper sale ever, S.I. Newhouse last year paid more than $300 million for Booth Newspapers' eight dailies and the Sunday supplement Parade. In all, 72 dailies changed hands last year, up from 49 in 1975. Says Otis Chandler, vice chairman of the Times Mirror Co. and an unsuccessful bidder...
Married. Anne Baxter, 53, film actress (All About Eve, The Razor's Edge) who quit the screen to live on an isolated cattle station in the Australian outback with her second husband, Randolph Gait, and wrote about it in Intermission; and Wall Street Investment Banker David Klee, 69; she for the third time, he for the fourth; in Manhattan...
...Saturday at Oddfellows Hall, alias the Joy of Movement Center, 536 Mass. Ave., Central Square, two dollars buys you a concert of British, Australian, Canadian and American songs and ballads given by Priscilla Herdman and Deborah Saperstone. All the concert publicity says with an air of significance that it's "sponsored by Peter Johnson." This means Johnson will be eating cat food if no one shows up. The concert starts at 8:00 pm. 492-4680 for interesting stories about Johnson...