Word: murdoch
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...started by kicking himself out of the job of Minister of Information and giving it to an inconspicuous British-born Senator (from Queensland), Hattil Spencer Foil. The most interesting part of the shake-up was that it followed the resignation of Australia's Lord Northcliffe -Sir Keith Murdoch, publisher of a chain of eleven Australian publications-as Australian press censor (Director-General of Information...
...tall, hearty man of military bearing is Sir Keith Murdoch, now 54. He lives in a big U. S. Colonial home outside Melbourne, owns a couple of sheep stations (ranches), collects paintings, silver, glass, Chinese ceramics. Born in Melbourne, son of a Presbyterian minister, Murdoch (not knighted till 1933) was doing pretty well as manager of a press cable service when he set out as a correspondent for the war in 1915. But he got his real start as an Empire bigwig when he landed in Britain, handed Lloyd George a confidential report on conditions in Gallipoli. Soon...
When he went back to Melbourne after the war, Murdoch sailed with the Prince of Wales on His Majesty's battle cruiser Renown. In 1920 he became editor of the Melbourne Herald, from then on loomed bigger and bigger in Australia's press...
...Herald is 100 years old. Though an afternoon paper, with a circulation of only 240,000, it is a sort of London Times in miniature. The "Murdoch press" has tentacles in three of Australia's six States, boasts a combined (daily & Sunday) circulation of more than 1,040,000-which is considerable on a continent of 7,000,000 inhabitants. But Sir Keith, except for a small interest in the Sydney Sun, has no newspaper holdings in New South Wales-a section as important in Australia as the Eastern coast...
...second line is on an almost equal par with the first. Juniors Rog Hozen, and Scotty McLennan have teamed up with Sophomore Gig Carton to spark the attack in recent games. Murdoch may also use a third line of big George Seabury, Nick Franchot, and Ed Toland, with the latter likely to get a chance to operate in the first combination...