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...Strauss, Democratic National Chairman, or other political figures are pedestrian. One trouble with this book--the big trouble with it--is that most of this stuff has been reproted before. There's just not anything new that a faithful reader of The New York Times, or even Time or Newsweek, doesn't already know...
...Seoul with meat cleavers and sent them wrapped in a Korean flag to then Japanese premier Kakuei Tanaka. Newsmen soon discovered however that those "patriots" were convicts who had been released from jail to perform this act. The government had paid them from $125 to $375 per finger (Newsweek...
...That's a sexist term, and I really dislike it," she says. Still, what else is there to call her? As chairman and principal owner of the Washington Post Co., she controls a $370 million communications empire that includes the Washington Post (see following story), the Trenton Times, Newsweek, five broadcast stations and 49% of a paper mill. The crowned heads of journalism and Government gather at her Georgetown home, weekend invitations to her Marshall, Va., farm are almost as prized as summonses to Camp David, and in a begrudging accolade. Women's Wear-Daily now refers...
...casualty in a series of top-level management shuffles at the Post Co. The newspaper division, for example, has had three different business managers in the past four years, and two division presidents have suddenly resigned in the past six years. Graham has also abruptly replaced a couple of Newsweek editors, although in general she grants her editors admirable support. But Graham can be rough on business types. "She's very difficult to get along with, especially if you have to work closely with her," says one former Graham lieutenant. "She's mercurial, impulsive. I've seen...
Omaha Whiz. The blowup that led to Israel's departure was over his opposition to Graham's proposed purchase of New York Magazine Co. Israel argued that the firm would cut into Post Co. profits, and that strong-willed NYM Founder Clay Felker would try to run Newsweek if he came aboard. Actually. Israel's troubles with Graham began more than a year ago. when Graham started listening less to him and more to Post Co. Board Member Warren Buffett, 46, a self-made Omaha financial whiz...