Sunday, September 07, 2008 | 2:47 a.m.

Trivia Bits, April 2

by Stan Newman
The 20th Century Fox film studios and the various Fox television networks, today owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, are named for a man whose connection to the company ended more than 75 years ago. Hungarian-born William Fox (born Wilhelm Fuchs) founded his film company in 1915 and lost it to a hostile takeover in 1930. Fox merged with Twentieth Century Pictures in 1935.

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