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...vice. She covered the Thaw murder trial, interviewed everyone from Sir Henry Irving to President Harrison, visited the leper colony at Molokai. When Mr. Hearst's mother died in 1919, "Annie Laurie" wrote the official press obituary, later turned out a 54,000-word biography of Phoebe Apperson Hearst in twelve days...
...story about Randolph Apperson Hearst's debut as a cub reporter on his father's San Francisco Examiner (TIME, March 18), reminds me of young Joe Pulitzer's experience under Charlie Chapin on the New York Evening World...
...Monday through Friday. First day of the schedule, the cub failed to show up for work. Second day, he went to lunch with the Examiner's business manager, did not return. No assistant city editor rebuked him. The cub's name: Randolph Apperson Hearst...
...changed from an agricultural depot to a thriving manufacturing centre. After Elwood Haynes made his first successful run with his horseless carriage on July 4, 1894 at Kokomo, the town became Indiana's Detroit. There Haynes located his plant and there also was built the fleet, low-strung Apperson '"Jackrabbit...
Kokomo started a decline in the early 1920's. The gas had failed. The Haynes and Apperson factories closed. But Kokomo's 32,000 inhabitants still point with pride to Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co.'s Kokomo plant, to a dozen metallurgical and machine works...