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McLaughlin comes here after a successful, seven-year association with Digger Phelps. First at Fordham and then at Notre Dame, McLaughlin assisted Phelps with the coaching chores. His post at Harvard marks McLaughlin's debut as a head coach. But the new situation does not intimidate McLaughlin, who has approached his formidable task with great enthusiasm...
...breed of young, dynamic coaches, is building a team around a sophomore backcourt of Ricky Free and Alton Byrd that should make New York fans forget the heyday of Jim McMillian and Heyward Dotson, the Kramer-Hairston era at NYU, and the glory days of Fordham under brilliant coach Digger Phelps...
...Digger Murdoch is showing Americans what most of them implicitly believe-that money talks...
...Digger" is a slang term first used in the 1850s to describe a miner in the Australian gold fields. It was popular in World War I as a nickname for an Australian soldier, and today is sometimes employed as a generic name for any Australian...
...high-minded Labor Party supporters then, but Murdoch imported his Sydney-tested approach, and circulation picked up. He shocked many Britons, for example, by rehashing the randy memoirs of Call Girl Christine Keeler in his News of the World. Private Eye, a London satirical magazine, labeled him the "Dirty Digger."* Talk Show Host David Frost dragged him onto TV one evening and publicly belabored him over the Keeler affair. (Murdoch some months later bought a major interest in London Weekend Television, a production company partly owned by Frost, and fired dozens.) Murdoch mostly ignored his incessant vilification in the British...