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...Commencement at Lawrenceville School went Hearst Columnist Arthur Brisbane, to watch his son and his employer's son receive their diplomas. Next day he headed his "Today" column with: "An interesting young graduate is Randolph Apperson Hearst, one of Mr. & Mrs. William Randolph Hearst's five sons. Another, particularly interesting to this writer, is Seward S. Brisbane, who made the class-day speech...
After Hearst? When a mighty man is 70, men eye his heirs. There are five Hearst sons (no daughters) of whom two -Twins William Elbert & Randolph Apperson-are too young to be studied as successors to their father's power & glory (but not too young to borrow one of his airplanes last week to fetch a Pittsburgh girl to the Lawrenceville Junior prom). One of the other three, fat George, 29, is senior-and least likely on his showing to date to handle the Hearst empire when the Chief passes. Nicknamed "Fanny." good-natured Son George has been tried...
...other young men drawn by the California gold strike. He was one of the handful who struck it, and kept it, and multiplied it richly. With mule and pack horse he roamed hardily from Alaska to Mexico. He went back to Missouri for his bride, patrician Phoebe Apperson, descended from Carolina-Virginia stock. His mines, ranches, banks, race horses and friends were one of the greatest collection ever made even in old California. He also owned $7,500,000 worth of the Anaconda; his million acres in Mexico pastured 48,000 cattle; and he would have bet any amount...
...Frederick H. Prince of Boston ($215,000 for a chapel in memory of their son Norman, War ace). The small, lovely Children's Chapel was given by Roland L. Taylor of Philadelphia and his wife. Only Coventry (England) has a similar chapel reserved for children. The late Mrs. Phoebe Apperson Hearst, mother of Publisher William Randolph Hearst, gave $201,000 to establish the National Cathedral School for Girls. Givers of $100,000 or more include Andrew William Mellon, his brother Richard, the late Ambassador to France Henry White, Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, the late Percy R. Pyne...
...birthday gift to the Queen and Empress whom he calls "May" was a diamond pendant. No one could say whether she wore it or not at the Court, so encrusted was she with ropes, pendants and brooches of diamonds. Of the 14 U. S. citizenesses presented Miss Carolyn Farrar Apperson Leech of Louisville, Ky. and Miss Vera Bloom of New York most engaged British newsfolk. They learned from southern friends of Miss Leech that "she founded the international observance of Armistice Day." Miss Bloom, they discovered, is a daughter of the man who built the Midway Plaisance at Chicago...