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...fish has grown even bigger, with circulation rising despite a price increase to 80 a copy. Last October, Murdoch acquired the dull but earnest daily Sun (circ.: 950,000) for a down-payment of $120,000-considerably less than he paid for his house on London's fashionable Sussex Square. He relaunched the Sun as a tabloid in November and it now sells 1,325,000 copies...
...committed radicals. They are more concerned with having courses on the relevant questions, and finding their own answers. I think what they're asking for is relevance, and that we can find answers to some of the issues of our basic society." 7". B. Bottomore, 49, University of Sussex, England: "Today, critics of society are very active and verbal and this has given an impetus to the new sociologists. They have an audience. In the early fifties they had no one to write...
GLYNDEBOURNE FESTIVAL (through Aug. 3) presents four operas amid the ambiance of a lush, 125-acre Sussex estate. Mozart's Cosi fan tutte and Don Giovanni alternate with Massenet's Werther and Debussy's Pelléas et Melisande...
Died. Brian Jones, 26, grass-and-groupie-plagued rock musician, lead guitarist for Britain's Rolling Stones until his pullout last month in a dispute over the group's future musical direction; by drowning; in his swimming pool at Crotchford Farm in Hartfield, Sussex, the 15th-century farmhouse where A. A. Milne created Winnie the Pooh. A onetime garbage collector, Jones was musically memorable for his driving guitar in such hits as This Could Be the Last Time and It's All Over Now. Twice convicted on marijuana charges, he was severely fined but spared a nine...
Thereafter, as Edel sees it, in all ways, James revived. He moved from London to Sussex with his "faithful fat dog" Tosca, a canary and a bicycle. He had dinner at 8 on his terrace, as if his English cottage were a Florentine villa. Finally he bought Lamb House in Rye, acquired an agent, and managed his business with unsuspected shrewdness. He priced his short stories (in good times, he wrote one a week) at $250, got as much as $375 for an article, and insisted on $3,000 from Harper's Weekly for serial rights to The Awkward...