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Kalikow Hires Adviser for N.Y. Daily News: Peter S. Kalikow, publisher of the New York Post, said he has hired Lazard Freres & Co. to consider offers to buy the New York Daily News in a joint effort with another bidder. Kalikow, a real estate developer, has said he wants to buy the newspaper and combine its operations with his tabloid newspaper. He said Lazard Freres will advise him on the financing of the acquisition of the Daily News as well as analyze what Kalikow said are “offers . . . with regard to possible joint efforts to acquire the News.” Sources familiar with the paper’s sale said Kalikow is readying a joint bid with Canadian-based newspaper publisher Hollinger Inc.