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...erstwhile boy wonder of Fleet Street, was in trouble from the start. Rather than fire the 1,000-man staff of the Sun (formerly the Daily Herald), which had lost $30 million in an unsuccessful effort to win a youthful readership, Cudlipp last year sold the paper to Rupert Murdoch, an Australian interloper in British publishing. One result was increased competition for the Mirror, I.P.C.'s most profitable property. Most of the company's 13 women's magazines are losing circulation as interest wanes in their homey format-cooking recipes and news of the royal family...
...grab some of that good Schlitz draught there, off of that shelf there, and kiss your favorite girlfriend goodbye and hustle on over to Rupert's house where you can tear off a couple of roll-on sticks of 6:12 insect repellent and cram them into a big open bottle of Windex, put the cap on, jam it up your nose, and let loose...
...since young Max Aitken (later Lord Beaverbrook) invaded Britain's newspaper scene more than half a century ago. There was, of course, the entry of a second Canadian in 1959. But Roy Thomson, at 65, was too old to provoke the image of an upstart interloper. Australian Rupert Murdoch has not only arrived at the same age as Aitken (37); he also shares-indeed, may even exceed -the Beaver's hustle...
...rest of the family leave town for a few days, Boon borrows their prize possession-a gleaming and glorious yellow Winton Flyer. He persuades Lucius to tell a string of whoppers to the relatives caring for him and, in the company of a genial black man named Ned McCaslin (Rupert Crosse), drives downstate to the big city. Boon wants to see his girl Corrie (Sharon Farrell), a particularly comely employee at Miss Reba's "boarding house." Ned is just looking to raise a little hell and Lucius goes along to watch the sparks...
...Center was created solely as a result of a 1956 report of a University-wide faculty committee which included Dean Bundy and Professors Rupert Emerson, Merle Fainsod, Lincoln Gordon, Milton Katz, William Langer and Edward Mason. No government agency had any part whatever in initiating, organizing, or financing the formation of the Center...