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...returned to Brazil in 1979, soon after Mengele drowned off a beach at Bertioga during an outing with the Bosserts. At that point, the younger Mengele reported, he collected from the Bosserts most of his father's effects; the rest, he thought, the couple had destroyed. Last week, however, Stern announced that it had bought from the Bosserts several hundred photographs of Mengele, along with three tapes of conversations, about a dozen notebooks and assorted letters...
...revelation raised the competition between the two rival magazines to new heights. Bunte announced that it would turn over all syndication fees from the Mengele story to Auschwitz survivors and to descendants of the camp's victims; Gunther Len Schonfeld, head of Stern's news department, told TIME that the generous-seeming gesture was "a show of hypocrisy." Privately, some editors at Bunte accused Stern of having stolen its cache of Mengele materials. Journalists at Stern complained that Bunte had violated copyright laws by running pictures owned by the Bosserts...
...feature common to both magazines, however, was their extreme caution in handling their respective scoops. Stung, perhaps, by the derision it drew after it fell for a hoax in publishing the so-called Hitler Diaries two years ago, Stern downplayed its pictures of the old man in Brazil. On its cover the magazine ran its standard topless beauty, and it held its press run to the usual 1.6 million copies...
...story of Leonard Stern sounds like something out of Capitalist Times. Son of the founder of Hartz Mountain Industries, Stern, 47, is the chairman of the world's largest purveyor of pet products. Intense and blunt-spoken, he may be worth as much as $1 billion, but only his accountant knows for sure: Stern's company is privately owned and he rarely talks to reporters. Now he will have trouble avoiding them. Last week Stern bought the Village Voice, the crusading, leftish weekly whose brand of political and cultural journalism shaped a generation of underground newspapers...
...Stern paid slightly more than $55 million in cash for the Manhattan-based paper, approximately what Press Baron Rupert Murdoch had been asking. Murdoch, who acquired the Voice, New York magazine and New West in 1977 for $16 million, decided to sell the 30-year-old weekly two months ago. The paper (circ. 150,000) made about $5 million profit before taxes last year...