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...Editor Felker, 51. Last week two of the biggest potentates in publishing battled for the feat of Clay. The combatants: Katharine Graham, 59, board chairman of the Washington Post Co., which in addition to the D.C. daily owns Newsweek, the Trenton Times and four TV stations; and Rupert Murdoch, 45, buccaneering Australian proprietor of ten major newspapers and eleven magazines-including, as of last week, New York City's afternoon daily the Post, where he is editor in chief. Up for grabs: control of the umbrella New York Magazine...
Wilson said it would be difficult to expand the board from its current 12 members to the 14 it would be if he, Glynn, Murdoch and Shuman, were all members...
James Q. Wilson, Shattuck Professor of Government, said he and another board member lost their positions with the New York Magazine Company in a move to make room for Rupert Murdoch, publisher of the New York Post, and Murdoch's banker, Stanley Shuman...
...Murdoch plans to take control of the company, which publishes New York Magazine, New West Magazine and the Village Voice, Wilson said...
Spokesmen for Murdoch at the Post said yesterday they could not explain the ouster of Wilson and the other member, Mary Joan Glynn, a cosmetics executive for the Revlon Corporation...