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ITHACA, N.Y.--Cornell's Dave Rupert had done everything right. He had relieved himself of all Harvard defenders, caught a perfect halfback option pass from John Riley and was now breaking free down the right sideline, headed in the direction of the Crimson endzone...
Only when he was caught, tackled one yard shy of the goal by Paul Halas and Fred Cordova, did Rupert do something wrong. In a vain attempt to sneak the nose of the football over the goal stripe, he forgot to hold onto it, and as he lay on the hard polyturf of Schoelkopf Field for that one instant in the fourth quarter here Saturday afternoon, a man without a ball, he struck an image for all Cornell. Rupert was down and out, and Bob Baggott had the football for Harvard...
...decline of the New York press continues apace. Last year saw the invasion of sensation-mongoring marsupial Rupert Murdoch; it has taken the money-mad Presslord Erom Down Under less than a year to transform the New York Post fro a blue-collar version of the New York Times into a frighteningly creditable imitation of the New York Daily News...
...sometimes steamy disclosures and Doonesbury's acid wit. Such censorship, however, can boomerang. The New York News last week quietly dropped six Doonesburys that poked fun at the paper for its breathless Son of Sam coverage. To be sure that the twitting of its rival be made public, Rupert Murdoch's New York Post, which has no contract with Doonesbury, ran two of the offending strips anyway...
...magazine during the highest of its haute-smartass days nearly two decades ago. Young Felker left Esquire in 1962, but became even more conspicuous in publishing and partying circles by founding New York in 1968, losing it this year in a bitter fight with Australian Sleaze-paper Publisher Rupert Murdoch (TIME, Jan. 17), and then scouring the globe for some new publishing adventure. Last week he found an old one: Esquire...