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...trouble began in 1974, when the already battered Daily News merged its advertising, circulation and production departments with those of the far larger Times (circ. 45,350). Only the editorial departments remained separate: the News continued to ask awkward questions about conservation while the Times remained boosterish about the Alaska oil pipeline and any other scheme that might improve the state's economy...
...cash. By 1968 his holdings included newspapers, magazines and broadcasting stations worth an estimated $50 million. He decided it was time to invade London. For $20 million he outbid British Book Publisher Robert Maxwell to win a controlling interest in News of the World, a Sunday scandal sheet (circ. 6 million). A year later, he bought the ailing daily Sun (circ. 950,000) for the bargain-basement price of $500,000. The Sun was a paper aimed at high-minded Labor Party supporters then, but Murdoch imported his Sydney-tested approach, and circulation picked up. He shocked many Britons...
...America ..."). It almost was Murdoch's own Gallipoli. He lavished $6 million on TV promotion and went through five editors, finally turning more toward women's service features. Now known as the Star (circ. 1.6 million), it is marginally profitable...
...actually born on Oct. 2, 1925. As adamantly as Harry S. Truman, he has refused to disclose his middle name-possibly because Schuette rhymes with "snooty" in Missouri honk. His father, Carl Felker, now 82, was a veteran newsman who became the editor of the immensely successful Sporting News (circ. 330,000). Carl Felker never won a single share of stock in Sporting News, a failure that still weighs on Clay's mind. When Clay was eight, he started his own hectograph-printed newspaper (ads: 25? a shot). Soon after he graduated from Duke...
...better position to judge how well it is being met than Florence Nightingale's successors. Caring for patients long after staff doctors have made their daily rounds,nurses see hospitals at their very best moments-and their worst. For this reason the professional journal Nursing?? (circ. 400,000) asked its readers just what they think of the quality of care in thehospitals, nursing homes and other institutions employing them. The results add up to a disturbing diagnosis: in the opinion of the majority of the nurses who replied, health care in general deserves a grade no better than...