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...West's extravagant start-up costs were partly responsible for Felker's fall and the New York Magazine Co.'s takeover by Australian Publisher Rupert Murdoch (TIME cover, Jan. 17). The magazine was turned over to a dizzying succession of new editors and writers struggling on their own. Murdoch has not ordered any major changes for New West, possibly because he is absorbed with his more important acquisition, the New York Post. As a result, Managing Editor Frank Lalli, a holdover from the Felker regime, has been given greater autonomy...
There are ambitious mavericks in every field (Clay Felker of New York in magazines, Rupert Murdoch in newspapers) who know the expected limits of respectability in their craft, but choose to succeed by excess. Arledge is such a man. His conversation is full of proper responses ("A commentary mustn't fight the film," "The single biggest problem of television is that everyone talks so much," "The first law of football is that when the teams line up, you go to the play-by-play man"); yet it is he who stuffed the Monday night booth with three garrulous commentators...
...twisted ends of their own, New Yorkers overwhelmed special police telephone lines. The main task-force center near Shea Stadium sometimes logged more than 100 calls an hour; the telephone company counted some 1,000 other hourly callers who found the lines busy. Fanned by frenzied tabloid coverage in Rupert Murdoch's New York Post, including a cliched open letter to Son of Sam and a sensational-and false-report that the Mafia had joined the hunt because the killings were hurting mob-controlled dating bars and discos,* an air of suspicion spread through the city...
...court-appointed temporary co-administrator of Hughes' estate, hopes to divide up that estate in an amicable settlement among the 22 heirs. He buttressed his position last week among the heirs by negotiating a new pact that includes two adopted children of Howard's uncle, Film Producer Rupert Hughes, who had been left out of an earlier agreement. Fighting back, Davis, who wants the entire estate to escape the 77% federal death levy by going to the tax-free Howard Hughes Medical Institute, has petitioned a Delaware judge to strip Lummis of his executive authority over Summa...
...Naughty Boy." She and Jay Garner (as Lulu's flashily dressed husband and partner), aided by a pair of tambourines, go to town on "I'd Leave My Happy Home For You," another older piece that Kern interpolated in this show. As their mousy but well-to-do cousin Rupert, John Remme is especially comical when he says, "I've been thinking of you morning, noon, and night," ticking off on three fingers the times...