Word: apperson
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...Ambler, Pa., or Scott City, Kans.; and that's where he grew up. He wore short pants until he was twelve, then went downtown on the streetcar with his mother to get his first pair of knickers. Automobiles were still symbols of success; a dad with an Apperson 8 or a Pierce-Arrow or a Hupmobile was forgiven if he showed off a bit by taking the family for a Sunday drive. Radios were primitive; sales of Atwater Kents and RCA Radiolas only began to climb when magazine ads of the '20s proclaimed that "the thrill of radio...
MOTOR CARS OF THE GOLDEN PAST by Ken W. Purdy. 216 pages. Atlantic-Little, Brown. $30. A nostalgic look at the days when now-vanished beauties such as the Apperson Jack Rabbit, the Pierce Arrow, the Willis Sainte Claire and the Stutz Bearcat tore up American roads. The vintage year was 1929, with its Kissel White Eagle, the Graham-Paige 837 with skirted fenders, the boat-tailed Auburn roadster and the dual-cowled Duesenberg phaeton. Park a while and reminisce...
Peace in the Morning. Chief figures in the deal were two dynastic heirs who are close friends but sharp professional rivals: Chronicle Editor Charles de Young Thieriot, 50, and Randolph Apperson Hearst, 50, publisher of both the Examiner and the News-Call Bulletin. For years the possibility of a deal has been discussed fitfully by "Charlie" Thieriot, whose grandfather founded the Chronicle 100 years ago, and "Randy" Hearst, whose father took over the Examiner in 1887 and used it as the foundation for his great empire. An end to the morning rivalry obviously made economic sense. The two Hearst papers...
...tenth-floor office in the old San Francisco Examiner Building, Randolph Apperson Hearst, president of Hearst Consolidated Publications, brooded last week over a set of nagging dilemmas. In the past six years Hearst's Examiner has boosted circulation 25% to 300,127, but it might just as well have stood still; in the same span, the rival Chronicle increased its sales 75%. to a pace-setting 315,180. Last year the Examiner was several million advertising lines ahead of the Chronicle, but the Hearst operation in San Francisco, which includes the struggling News Call Bulletin, is still losing money...
...Treated kindly by the people of Oroville, he became a brief celebrity, and soon Anthropologist Thomas T. Waterman of the University of California took him to San Francisco in the "white man's demon," a railroad train, and gave him comfortable quarters in a museum endowed by Phoebe Apperson Hearst, mother of William Randolph Hearst...