Word: australian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aptly point out in your story on the Black Prince of the Press, Rupert Murdoch [Jan. 17], the only decent newspaper he publishes, The Australian, hardly keeps its head above water. The Sunday Australian, which he used to publish, was even better but, like a lot of other papers that are too good for the public, it went under...
...steps to enhance that titH She has consolidated her control of the Post Co. by forcing out President Larry H. Israel, 57, and asking the company's directors to combine the position with her own. Graham. 59, is also seeking to acquire another magazine. She lost out to Australian Rupert Murdoch in bidding last month for New York (TIME cover. Jan. 17), but she is now trying to buy The New Yorker, that genteel and profitable weekly. Said a Post Co. insider. "It depends on when they want to sell...
Died. Bruce Hungerford, 54, Australian-born concert pianist and Egyptologist; in an auto accident; just after giving a slide lecture on Egypt at Rockefeller University in New York City. When he was pianist in residence at the Bayreuth Festival master classes, Hungerford recorded all the piano music of Richard Wagner. More recently he was acclaimed for his powerful, deeply sensitive interpretations of Beethoven, both in concert and on records...
From his new command center at the New York Post, which he now refers to as his U.S. flagship publication, Australian Press Lord Rupert Murdoch spent last week consolidating his control of his latest acquisitions, New York magazine, the Village Voice and New West. That meant a lot of changes-new faces, new plans. After committing $45 million for two corporations that both lost money last year (TIME cover Jan. 17), Murdoch needs to steer them into a quick turnaround...
...paper has nowhere to go but up, welcomed Murdoch's fresh energy and above all his capital. So far, Murdoch has been doing a lot of the editing, but this week he will shift much of it to his new editor, Edwin (Ted) Bolwell, 44, a native Australian who first broke into journalism on the Melbourne Herald under Rupert's father, Sir Keith Murdoch...