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Although Slichter declined comment to the Independent many, many times during the search, he never said anything along the lines of what you "reported." I suggest that you check your libel handbook and be more careful of printing supermarket tabloid-style falsehoods in the future. Josh Clark Executive News Director Harvard Independent
Pity the Hollywood suits who will have to choose which of this winter's murder cases would make the best movie of the week. Even tabloid writers with a flair for melodrama are hard pressed to do justice to the true stories that have unfolded in New Hampshire, Texas and Florida -- and who knows how many other plots are marinating, still undiscovered, in the shadows of the heartland? A brief gazetteer...
...Yorkers remain loyal to the sassy Daily News, which over the years has been celebrated in song (by Frank Loesser and Phil Ochs, among others) and screenplay (its Art Deco building on Manhattan's 42nd Street was reporter Clark Kent's workplace in the Superman movies). For the tabloid's fans, Maxwell's moxie may prove congenial. He has shown a shrewd feel for the city's odd blend of worldliness and parochialism. Playing to Manhattanites' penchant for embracing almost any outsider who professes himself instantly smitten with their metropolis, Maxwell arrived by yacht to start negotiations and, before stepping...
...first heady gust of publicity. Others think he is determined to succeed where his archrival, Australian-born media mogul Rupert Murdoch, failed. Murdoch, who bested Maxwell in London to buy the Sun, News of the World and the august Times, burst onto the New York scene by acquiring the tabloid Post in 1976. During the next 12 years, Murdoch lost $150 million before being legally compelled to sell because he also owned a local TV station...
Maxwell has also said that he would be closely involved in daily management of the paper, as he is with the Daily Mirror, a London tabloid with a circulation of about 4.5 million...