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Somerville resident Thomas Murdoch, who said he runs the course regularly at lunch, won the race, completing the five-mile course in less than 27 minutes...
...reposition the fashion magazine from a book of endless pages of clothes to a style magazine that readers would pick up and stay with for a few hours," she recalls. When she was fired in 1988 by S.I. Newhouse, who wanted a younger look for Vogue, media buccaneer Rupert Murdoch came forward with a proposal that Mirabella found irresistible...
Backed by Murdoch's dollars, Mirabella hired two former Vogue colleagues -- her creative director, Jade Hobson Charnin, and features editor, Amy Gross -- to develop a voice that would speak to mature, contemporary women. Hypersensitive to comparisons with Lear's, she feels her feature offerings can compete with Vanity Fair's and the New Yorker's. The latter is still a stretch, although recent contributors -- including Francine du Plessix Gray and Roy Blount -- have toughened Mirabella's edge...
Barring a deep recession, Mirabella is expected to break even within the next year. Murdoch's News Corp., which is laboring under an $8.4 billion debt, indicated in March that it would be willing to entertain bids for some of its magazine properties -- Mirabella included. The news has caused little disturbance at Mirabella. "It would have no effect on my business or my people," says Julie Lewit-Nirenberg, the magazine's publisher. "I'm very sanguine...
Some London business analysts question whether his interest in the Daily News will outlast the first heady gust of publicity. Others think he is determined to succeed where his archrival, Australian-born media mogul Rupert Murdoch, failed. Murdoch, who bested Maxwell in London to buy the Sun, News of the World and the august Times, burst onto the New York scene by acquiring the tabloid Post in 1976. During the next 12 years, Murdoch lost $150 million before being legally compelled to sell because he also owned a local TV station...