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...supernumerary job: in charge of illustration for the West Coast papers. George just likes photography is the way Hearstlings say it. John Randolph (Jack), 35, handles promotion projects (ranging from essay contests to Youth for Christ) in New York, as assistant to general manager Jacob Gortatowsky. Captain Randolph Apperson (Randy), 30, prewar assistant publisher of the San Francisco Call-Biilletin, will probably get a western Hearstpaper when he leaves the A.A.F...
...Delta and Old Man Town built her a $100,000 house with $50 doorknobs. She added an "e" to her name. Next year Old Man Towne raised dollar cotton. Mrs. Towne, pallid Loraine and nympholeptic little Elaine went to Europe. Van, demoniacally drunk, scorched around the State in an Apperson Jackrabbit with a siren on it, leaving terror, curses and shaken fists in his wake. Old Man Towne borrowed $500,000 against the open draft notes signed in his name in Van's handwriting, and against the importunate cables from abroad. One day he came back from Memphis with...
Born. To Randolph Apperson ("Randy") Hearst, 23, youngest (with twin brother David Whitmire) of William Randolph Hearst's five sons, assistant publisher of his father's Atlanta Georgian, and Catherine Wood Campbell Hearst, 21: their first child, a daughter, Hearst's fifth grandchild. Weight: 5½ lbs. Name: Catherine Millicent...
...others soon steered the auto industry into less horse-conscious ways. Next year Henry Ford and Ransom E. Olds had patents, year after that Elwood Haynes and the Apperson brothers joined the motorcade. Sketchily financed at the start, the Duryea car that won the first U.S. automobile race (Chicago, 1895) and led the parade for several years with Barnum's circus, never burned up the roads in a business way. Duryea was for simplification, economy. One model had only three wheels, another had all the functions of steering, braking, gear shifting, spark control and acceleration combined in a single...
Married. Randolph Apperson ("Randy") Hearst, 22, one of Publisher Hearst's tall, twin youngest sons; to Catherine Wood Campbell, 20; in Atlanta, Ga. Of the five Hearst brothers, only Randolph's twin, David Whitmire Hearst has not been married' at least once...