Word: apperson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Edgar Landon Apperson, 89, auto industry pioneer, who built one of the world's first cars; in Phoenix, Ariz. In 1893 Apperson put together his first car in a little shop in Kokomo, Ind., later produced annually 1,500 cars (called Jackrabbits), prophesied in 1943: "When the American people are willing to sacrifice showing off, they'll get a lighter car built of light materials that will be cheaper...
...will, the late William Randolph Hearst fought to the end to hold on to his fabulous 1,625,000-acre Mexican ranch, Babicora. His father, Senator George Hearst, had founded the property, picking up land for peanuts in the last days of the 19th century, and his mother, Phoebe Apperson Hearst, expanded the ranch...
Back during the dusty, tire-patching era of the Pope-Hartford and the Apperson Jackrabbit, the average U.S. citizen seldom got behind an automobile wheel without secretly feeling a little like a man climbing aboard a racing camel or a Mallet locomotive. In the years since, he has gone right on believing that only his innate coolness, intelligence and mechanical aptitude have enabled him to remain the master of the gas buggy. But last week Northwestern University's Traffic Institute had news...
...Hearst Consolidated Publications, which directly owns & operates some Hearst papers, also controls Hearst Publishing Co., which owns most of the rest. Bill Jr., already publisher of the New York Journal-American and the American Weekly, was also chosen chairman of the vital editorial-policy-setting board. Son Randolph Apperson Hearst, 35, publisher of the San Francisco Call-Bulletin, was named president of the lesser Hearst Publishing Co. (As president of the Hearst Corp., the highest-level holding company, Dick Berlin is the No. i man on the business side...
When Hedda Hopper's bombshell burst, the lawyers who had drawn the agreement for Hearst promptly confirmed it-and so did Marion Davies. The news brought a quick and bold counterattack from the Hearst estate's special administrators, Son Randolph Apperson Hearst and Lawyer Henry MacKay Jr.: "This so-called agreement . . . was never executed and for this and many other reasons has no more effect than if it never existed." Snapped Filmland Lawyer Gregson Bautzer, who had helped set up the agreement last year for Hearst: "The document will speak for itself when filed...