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...Murdoch is seldom seen without tie, vest and stylish Savile Row suit. The Murdochs occasionally entertain at home. More often, they like to invite a few friends (among them: Murdoch Executives Richard Sarazen and George Viles and, until now, Clay Felker) to dine at a tony restaurant like Le Madrigal. Out-of-town visitors are taken for a Kong's-eye view of Manhattan and a feast at the top of the World Trade Center, and Rupert sometimes takes Anna for a quiet lobster dinner at The Palm restaurant. "I'm a bit dull and humorless, not the sort...
Second best is probably the telephone. A reluctant memo writer (though a prolific doodler), Murdoch directs his far-flung empire almost entirely by phone. For an hour most nights, he conducts a long-distance séance (at $3 a minute) with Ken May, his Australian proconsul, from the 18th century desk in his study. Murdoch can be a telephonic terror. Pubs full of sacked editors in London and Sydney curse his quick temper, his reluctance to dispense praise?...
...first American venture, San Antonio's morning Express and the afternoon News, Murdoch again showed little interest in politics. Neither paper staffed the state or national political conventions, although each sends sportswriters as far away as Seattle to follow the Spurs, the city's pro basketball team. Pitting the News against Hearst's Light, Murdoch began a circulation war that increased his paper's sales by 18,000, to 78,000, while his rivals' dropped slightly, to 125,000. The fight brought out the worst in both publications. After turning the News front page into a graphic jungle of black...
...laughter in the city rooms of the Houston Post and the Dallas Times Herald. The Express covers local news reasonably well and runs Columnists James Reston, James J. Kilpatrick and Jack Anderson. It is no better or worse than a dozen other papers in cities of similar size. Even Murdoch finds it "a little gray...
...Murdoch's chief bastion of legitimacy is The Australian, his home country's only national newspaper, which he founded in 1964 and refers to as his "flagship." The Australian is a good, solid journal of politics, business and criticism, paying attention to the arts as well as to sports. There is no paper like it in the U.S. Although writing and perceptions are inferior, The Australian is vaguely reminiscent of London's Observer, which Murdoch vainly tried to buy last year as part of his drive for respectability in Britain. Ironically, The Australian has never made money...