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Murdoch had never played two-up with a newspaper, and he was eager to try for a run. So in 1956 he bought a Sunday paper in Perth for $400,000, then four years later spent $4 million for the Sydney Daily Mirror, a racy tabloid weakened by incessant circulation wars. His Sydney invasion literally touched off new fighting. When Murdoch outbid a rival publisher for an Anglican Church printing plant, the rival tried to occupy the building. Murdoch allies rounded up a gang of hammer-wielding thugs and recaptured the plant after a bloody fight. At the same time...
...protective of his own. He rarely grants interviews or allows photographers to snap pictures of his four children: a daughter, Prudence, 18, from a first marriage and three children, Elisabeth, 8, Lachlan, 5, and James, 4, by his wife Anna, 32, a stunningly attractive, quick-witted former Sydney Daily Mirror reporter, whom he married in 1967. Six years ago, in London, Anna was the target of a kidnap attempt in which the wife of a Murdoch lieutenant was murdered. Murdoch did not stop his plebeian practice of taking the subway to work every day, but he hired bodyguards...
Howard Hughes has been many things to many men-and women. But TIME's cover portrait of the dying junkie billionaire seems to be stretching artistic license rather thin by giving us not reality, the wreck, but an almost mirror image of Leonardo da Vinci's last self-portrait...
...Kate. Bite your tongue." He hugs me studying our embrace in the bathroom mirror. "I could never leave you. You're so funny...
MORE CONSCIOUSLY, more deliberately than perhaps any other novelist in America today, John Updike creates characters whose private dramas mirror the dilemmas of their age. Intermittently they are reminded of the business of the world outside their own lives, of spaceshots and test ban treaties and civil rights confrontations. In the background of his novels, one hears the incessant soft humming of history...