Word: rupe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sooner had the ink dried on my New Year's resolutions two weeks ago than I received a call from my old friend Rupert Murdoch. Seems Rupe's diversifying--wants to buy into a whole mess of disco acts, called me for advice. Lunched at Passim's, where I introduced him to a couple of friends who were in town, arranging appearances at nite spots around the Square. (He picked up the tab, and later bought Passims). Out on Mass Ave., he bought us a cab, and we drove downtown to Rupe's office in the recently-renamed Murdoch building...
...stream of phone calls from down-at-the heels disco acts. "Hello, Mr. Murdoch, this is Gladys Knight." The voice was unmistakable. She was muttering something about her new solo effort--"Midnight Train to Canberra," I think she said--and how the Pips were a thing of the past. Rupe told her to forget music for the moment: "Honey, I've got bigger things planned for you...Ever hear of New West...
Clay and the Felkers, Richard Reeves and the Vandellas, Candy and the Blue Skies, Bob Grossman and the Wailer--they kept calling all afternoon. Ol' Rupe the Benificient passed out concert dates--and editorial positions on disco publications like they were going were going out of style...
This town is about the dullest thing since Sydney. (Rupe says he likes my face may make me the anchorman of the Today show someday. Yep.) Later, Rich...
...strongest cases had come to trial first. Jerry Rupe, 23, was convicted of a misdemeanor for interfering with a fireman at the scene of the burning ROTC building. Two other students pleaded guilty to first-degree rioting. A fourth defendant was freed when a principal witness failed to identify him. In a fifth case, Mary Helen Nicholas turned out to have told a state investigator that she had grabbed a firehose, but she was never told that the statement could be used against her. Judge Edwin Jones directed a not-guilty verdict...