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BOSTON--Negotiators announced a "memorandum of understanding" yesterday for publisher Rupert Murdoch to buy the Boston Herald American, but said the newspaper's unions must come to terms first...
DIED. Cathleen Nesbitt, 93, versatile British character actress whose career lasted 70 sparkling years on the London and Broadway boards; in London. "Incredibly, inordinately, devastatingly, immortally, calamitously, hearteningly, adorably beautiful," said the poet Rupert Brooke of Nesbitt at 24. Photographed by George Bernard Shaw, directed by the Shakespearean scholar Harley Granville-Barker, she began as an ingenue and ended in elegant dowager parts, most notably in the original My Fair Lady and the 1980-81 touring revival, which was her final appearance. "I haven't been known as a great actress," she said then. "But I've been...
...pass film scripts along with English muffins at the Bel Air Hotel and the Polo Lounge. Executives from Pillsbury and Control Data help keep the wood-paneled, chandeliered rooms of the Minneapolis Club filled to near capacity on weekday mornings. At New York City's Regency Hotel, Publisher Rupert Murdoch, Labor Lawyer Theodore Kheel and Investment Banker Felix Rohatyn frequently occupy adjacent tables. Bob Tisch, chairman of Loews Hotels, which owns the Regency, and a habitual breakfaster, says, "The transactions are very gentlemanlike, but there is big money negotiated here...
...announcement a year ago cheered Britain: Rupert Murdoch, the brash, bossy Australian who had bought the staid, venerable (197-year-old) Times of London, was appointing an imaginative and sternly independent editor. Murdoch hailed Harold Evans, for 14 years the chief of the separate Sunday Times, as Britain's "greatest editor" and the ideal man to reverse the daily paper's long, steep financial slide...
...Rupert Murdoch, the Australian newspaper mogul, bought the afternoon Post in 1976 and knew exactly what he wanted to do. He moved it away from the traditional role of the afternoon paper--providing the day's developing news, with lots of commentary and business reporting--and turned to the stuff that neither television nor the more respectable print outlets were doing. The Post went heavily into crime ("Gutsy Hell Camp Victim Foils Thugs"--a story about a mugging of a concentration camp survivor in yesterday's edition), sentiment ("Medal for New York's bravest little girl...") and gossip (at least...