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With an opening press run of 1.5 million, to be distributed initially in the Northeast and parts of the Midwest, the Star represents a major invasion by Australian Publishing Baron Rupert Murdoch. Now 42, Murdoch inherited a small Australian daily from his father in 1953 and built it into a worldwide publishing empire: eleven magazines and more than 80 newspapers in Australia, New Zealand and Great Britain. Murdoch's major acquisitions include Britain's Peeping-Tom Sunday News of the World (circ. 6,000,000) and the London Sun (circ. 3,000,000), which was failing until...
...Where might the owner of the British weekly News of the World (circ. 6,000,000), the daily London Sun (circ. 2,600,000) and the Sydney Sunday Telegraph (circ. 622,000) surface next? Why San Antonio, naturally. Later this month Publishing Baron Rupert Murdoch, 42, will complete his $18 million purchase of the San Antonio morning Express (circ. 84,000) and evening News (circ. 63,000), sister dailies owned by Harte-Hanks Newspapers Inc. The choice of locale might seem odd for the ambitious Australian, who has specialized in reviving faltering papers with heavy doses of crime coverage, cheesecake...
...looked like the ultimate humiliation for Rolls-Royce Motors Ltd. In late March, the famous company was put on the auction block-and last week it developed that nobody wanted to buy it at a price acceptable to Bankruptcy Receiver Edward Rupert Nicholson. He had asked companies interested in purchasing Rolls to submit sealed bids, which were opened last week. No foreign company made a bid, because the British government would not have let a foreign purchaser use the Rolls-Royce name. Ten British bids were received, but all were below the $120 million or so that London financiers once...
...division was nationalized by the Crown and a new operation, Rolls-Royce Motors, was created to continue making cars, diesel engines and turbine parts. The motor business has done well; it posted nearly $10 million in pre-tax profits last year on sales of $110 million. So Receiver Edward Rupert Nicholson had planned to sell shares in it to the British public and use the proceeds to settle bills run up by the aero-engine operation. But a prolonged slump in the London stock market has prompted Nicholson to invite sealed bids from would-be corporate buyers instead...
Finishing behind Rojas, 22.27, who led for most of the race, were Drew Mearns 22:36; Bill Good of Princeton, 22.39; and Marsh Jones of Harvard, 22.44. The fifth, sixth and seventh spots were taken by Princeton runners Ron Vander Kreats Andres Rupert, and Bob Bazley. Harvard's Andy Campbell, 22:52, and Bill Durette, 22:54, finished ahead, of Chris Elliot of Princeton, to round out the top ten finishers...