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Empire Plan. Now, as general manager, Gortatowsky has a lot to say about how the Hearst papers are run, but like all well-mannered Hearst brass hats, would have you believe that "The Chief" does it all himself. This disavowal of credit also enables him to disavow responsibility for Hearstian yellow jingoism...
There was, to be sure, a "germ of truth" in your leading editorial of September 25. But aside from the subtleties of its somewhat Hearstian hyperbole and misplaced emphasis, we feel that you wound up in severe contradiction. The bluntness of your concluding statement indicates a spirit of intolerance more alien to Harvard than that of which the defendant Admonition is accused. After all, gentleman, as you yourself implied, tolerance thrives in an atmosphere of criticism. Logically, the more critical an opposition becomes, the more tolerance should be extended. In reality, however, we find that exactly the opposite is true...
First approach was to M. G. M. Headman Louis B. Mayer, an old Hearst friend and spiritual shepherd of Hollywood's producers. Mr. Mayer was warned that the release of Kane would mean a good, old-fashioned Hearstian attack on Hollywood-lots of stories on the intimate facts of the intimate lives of the movie colony. Hearst's gossip-dishing Adela Rogers St. Johns was placed on the firing line...
...palmy days of the Defender were mostly over when Mrs. Abbott No. 2 appeared. In its million-dollar-a-year heyday (1919-28) the Defender brought Publisher Abbott (son of a Georgia slave) fame, social position, a Rolls-Royce, a Hearstian house filled with Hearstian gimcracks...
...Hearst Editor Arthur Brisbane died on Christmas Day 1936 he left a son, four daughters, around $5,000,000 and an unmatched 39-year record for turning omniscient piffle to profit in his column Today. Last fortnight a new Brisbane byline bobbed up for the first time in the Hearstian New York Mirror. Wrote Seward Brisbane, 24, of an interview with another great...