For months, the nation's champion newspaper hunter, Samuel I. Newhouse, 67, had stalked the enticing prey. Now it seemed all but in the bag. In Omaha, the World-Herald board of directors, their fears of absentee ownership apparently lulled by Newhouse assurances, accepted his bid of $40,065,780. All that intervened was a meeting of principal stockholders to ratify the board's decision. But last week, at the last moment. Outsider Newhouse lost his Omaha prize to a hometown boy.
The successful bidder, and the World-Herald's new proprietor, is Peter Kiewit (pronounced key-wit), 62, a spare, taciturn...
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