Word: murdoch
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...Robert Sabbag wrote in Snow Blind, his hip account of the cocaine trade: "To snort cocaine is to make a statement. It is like flying to Paris for breakfast." Those who have been arrested for possessing it include Rolling Stones Guitarist Keith Richard, New York Rangers Forward Don Murdoch, TV Star Louise Lasser, Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas and one of the owners of Manhattan's top discotheque, Studio 54, where a flashing light tableau shows the man in the moon sniffing coke from a spoon...
...Rangers actually managed to win a playoff game against Buffalo last year, a 4-3 OT thriller at Madison Square Garden, when Don Murdoch scored at 1:37 of extra time. But earlier in the sudden-death session, two apparent goals, one by each team, had been disallowed. Who "scored" them...
...press instead of twelve) and agreed to submit the issue of reduced support crews to arbitration. Those cuts are expected to save the News and Times each about $4 million a year, the Post about $2 million. The Post had resumed publication last month after Publisher Rupert Murdoch agreed to accept any terms eventually worked out between the unions and the other rival papers, a copycat clause that earned Murdoch the nickname "Mr. Me Too" among negotiators. "Both sides came out smelling like a rose," according to Kheel. Yet the strike cost the papers as much as $150 million...
...sports, crime and bare-breasted pinups. The format, rooted in the 19th century penny press and perfected in the frothy wake of the swinging '60s, now dominates British newsstands. The leading exponents of the "tits and bums" genre, as it is known on Fleet Street, are Publisher Rupert Murdoch's Sun (circ. 4 million) and the Daily Mirror (circ. 3.9 million). Each is fondled by twice as many customers a day as all four of Britain's major quality dailies combined. Total circulation for the Times, Daily Telegraph, Financial Times and Guardian is 2.1 million...
Times readers, beneft of its acres of information and its sober ruminations, haven't got much help from the return to publication of Rupert Murdoch's go-it-alone New York Post, which is crammed with ads, some news, and a lot of sell-promotion. Murdoch is too commercially astute to try to fill the gap left by the Times (he couldn't anyway). Instead, while he has the spotlight he has been trying to start up a new Sunday paper and a salty new morning tabloid to compete against the New York Daily News...