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...will have to be devised, even though Shawn has displayed no desire to depart 43rd Street. How Newhouse handles Shawn, still very much a revered figure in the halls of The New Yorker, will go a long way toward determining how the New Yorker family feels about the new proprietor...
...Owner Lord Thomson said he would fold the Times unless he found a buyer within five months. When he found one, his choice seemed to much of the staff, and to many of the Times's top-drawer readers, a fate worse than death: Australian Press Lord Rupert Murdoch, proprietor of the tabloid daily Sun, which features screaming headlines and photographs of naked women, and the equally lowbrow Sunday News of the World. As proof of his good intentions, Murdoch recruited Harold Evans, for 14 years the esteemed editor of the separate Sunday Times, to run the daily edition; within...
...cheesesteaks frying on the grill, and the students in their black weed coats, waiting in the long line to place their orders. On the right edge of the sign is a credible illustration of a hot pastrami sandwich, on the left edge is a color photo enlargement of proprietor Thomas Stefanian's head. In the picture he is bedecked in a while French chef's hat and neckerchief--garments only the photographer has ever seen him wear. His mouth is parted, exposing all 32 teeth, and he radiates a strong yet clusive emotion...
...find evidence of foul play. The hotel bartender, who hates whites in general and Tillman especially, feels free to slander the dead woman: "Daht ol boney-bag he call his muddah grabbin aht every blahck boy on de beach." As bad feelings spread and red tape unreels, the proprietor must store his mother's body in the kitchen freezer, prompting a walkout by the staff...
...recalled one French hotel proprietor who repeatedly refused to show him a room. She said she couldn't stand the people who found her hotel through the Let's Go series, and she wanted to be taken out of the book. "So as retribution," laughed Rosen, "We kept...