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...record-business jargon, 500,000 albums sold is gold, and 1 million is platinum). Her second, Like a Virgin, which includes five of her own songs, has gone quadruple platinum at 4.5 million copies in domestic sales, with 2.5 million more worldwide. Her singles have found 6.3 million buyers in the U.S. (or the same buyer 6.3 million times, exasperated parents may feel). Like a Virgin has sold 1.9 million copies as a single in the U.S., and the ballad Crazy for You recently dislodged USA (United Support of Artists) for Africa's We Are the World single from...
...station in the same city. Thus Murdoch will have to sell both the New York Post, a screeching tabloid partial to news of crime, sex and the latest lottery winner, and the more sedate Chicago Sun-Times. To raise cash for the Metromedia deal, Murdoch is also seeking a buyer for the Village Voice, the leftish Manhattan weekly that nearly always was at odds with its owner's conservative politics (asking price: a very capitalistic $55 million...
...optimistic at the Chicago Sun-Times, which Murdoch bought in 1983 for $90 million. Though its circulation trails the competition (639,000, vs. 776,000 for the Tribune), the Sun-Times turns a marginal profit. Editor Frank Devine, who was installed by Murdoch last January, is confident that a buyer will be found. "Of course, I'd rather Rupert kept the Sun-Times. After all, he's a rather zingy fellow, the kind of live-wire person I like...
...employed the author as a secretary and driver during the summer of '37, Hersey had points to score. The Wall (1950) dramatized the life and death of the Warsaw ghetto. The War Lover (1959) examined the roots of violence through a self-hating American bomber pilot. The Child Buyer (1960) criticized trends in education, and The White Lotus (1965) took on racism in an allegory that made Caucasians the objects of discrimination...
...gentrification of Boot Key Marina has begun. At the end of March the Pluhars sold it to a man named John Theurer. Rumor swept through Marathon that the selling price was over $2 million. Nobody knew much about the buyer. Up and down Highway 1, in the banks and the bars and the early-morning breakfast places, people were telling one another that he was part of the Theurer family that had made its money in truck- trailer manufacturing. "To be fair, no one knows what he is going to do with the marina," said a longtime resident, sitting...