Word: owners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bears a vague resemblance to Alfred Hitchcock--is brought to life by the tears of a dollmaker who is too poor to buy her sick daughter the oranges she dreams of. The dollmaker sends the puppy to be sold in a toy store. He manages to escape his new owner there as well as his fate as a windshield ornament. The rest of the story follows his efforts to get back to the little girl with the oranges that will make her well. Along the way the puppy encounters a sloe-eyed South American ballerina and her raffishly murderous boyfriend...
William D. Cramer, owner of the car, said yesterday the incident occurred about 2 a.m. yesterday...
...real surprise came the next month. After length negotiations that included jetting off to Aspen to find majority stockholder Carter Burden, and the expenditure of $15 million, Murdoch became the owner of not only New York and its fledgling cousin New West, but of The Village Voice as well...
...many New Yorkers, that tale would have seemed only slightly more bizarre than the melodrama unfolding on their front pages and television screens last week. Rupert Murdoch ?the furry-browed, softspoken, intensely competitive Australian owner of ten major newspapers, 13 magazines and dozens of lesser publications?had no sooner established himself as the owner of the city's only afternoon paper, the Post (circ. 500,000), than he was making a surprise bid to buy control of the New York Magazine Co. New York Founding Editor Clay Felker, meanwhile, canvassed millionaires around the world for help in fighting...
That spectacle would have made a King Kong-size story for New York, the small but influential weekly that celebrates the life-styles of the city's rich, its powerful and its houseplant owners. (Felker's editors indeed commissioned Cartoonist David Levine to draw a stinging cover portrait of Murdoch as one of those South American killer bees beloved of Murdoch-style tabloids; Felker thought better of it eventually.) But there almost was no new issue of New York. Nearly all the magazine's 125-member staff walked out in support of Felker, and only some last-minute help from...