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...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...
Silver Spoon. He was a complex child of simple, ambitious parents. "Phoebe Apperson Hearst," wrote Hearstling Winifred Black Bonfils in an official biography, "was born [1842] in an old-fashioned American home, on an old-fashioned American farm in the old-fashioned American State of Missouri. She died in a magnificent Spanish hacienda in California, surrounded with every exotic luxury that the brain of man could conceive, or the heart of woman desire." She married a rough & rowdy Missouri Argonaut named George Hearst, who lost two fortunes, but won three in gold & silver. In San Francisco, on April...
...comes to all Hearst sons, a top Hearst job came last week to Randolph Apperson Hearst, 34. After three years as executive editor, then associate publisher, handsome, slick-haired Randy Hearst took over as full-fledged publisher of Hearst's San Francisco Call-Bulletin (circ. 152,135). Randy, who had broken in as a cub on his father's San Francisco Examiner, was thus even up with twin brother David, publisher of the Los Angeles Herald & Express, and older brother William Randolph Jr., publisher of the New York Journal-American...
...those weeks when the U.S. citizen re-experienced the urge that had assailed him annually since the day of the Apperson Eight and the Pope-Toledo. He wanted to go somewhere in an automobile. He wanted to breathe exhaust fumes and fresh spring air just for the tonic effect. He wanted to speed or crawl as the spirit moved him; to read new Burma-Shave signs, flip cigarettes at rural mail boxes, or park and fall into a stupor with the sun on his neck...