Word: australian
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...native Sydney, Australia, Hughes covered an art exhibit for a local paper one day in 1958 after the regular critic had been fired. Since then, Hughes has been an art critic in Italy, Britain and, after joining TIME in 1970, the U.S. He has written two books -one on Australian art and one on images of paradise and perdition in Western art. He also has written several art documentaries for Australian television and for the BBC, most recently a pair of 75-minute programs on 17th century Painters Caravaggio and Rubens. Hughes' current projects include a book about Australia...
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...
Selling the Farm. Still, why sell to an Australian instead of seeking other American prospects? Some Schiff associates speculate that Murdoch's publishing success and personal vigor remind her of the late Lord Beaverbrook, her fond mentor. But unlike Beaverbrook, who used his newspapers to influence British politics, Murdoch is out to make merry and money. The son of a prominent Australian journalist, Sir Keith Murdoch, Oxford-educated Rupert inherited a lackluster Adelaide daily in 1952 and parlayed it into an empire on three continents that today includes 87 newspapers, eleven magazines, seven broadcast stations, and an airline service...
Fifty-six-year-old Australian pro Kel Nagle took a one-stroke lead in an international golf tournament at Melbourne yesterday. Nagle, who won the World Seniors in 1971, reached the peak of his career in 1960 when he won the centenary British Open at St. Andrews, staving off the closing charge of a young Arnold Palmer...
...Nagle was the runner-up in the U.S. Open, losing in a playoff to Gary Player in the best finish ever by a native Australian...