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Christian Century had croaked the doom of Publisher Hearst's ilk in an editorial week before. An anti-Hearst committee persuaded 20th Century-Fox to cancel a proposed cinema about the Spanish revolution with Hearstian correspondent Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker as supervisor. The publisher's Presidential candidate had been historically swamped Nov. 3. At this juncture, William Randolph Hearst, whose instinct for ultimately landing right side up has seldom failed him in five decades of journalistic rough & tumble, began mending his fences...
...whose famed straw vote had polled by mail 1,293,669 votes for Alfred Landon, 972,897 for Franklin Roosevelt. In the face of actual returns, the publishing trade buzzed with rumors about what the Digest had done or would do: that it had been bought with Republican or Hearstian gold, that its editors had bet and lost a fortune on the vote, that it would never again attempt a pre-election poll, that it would go out of business altogether...
...Crimson has again manifested a Hearstian policy of distortion of facts and villification of a selected minority...
Story broke when Daughter Mary Belle eloped from her home in suburban Chicago Heights to La Porte, Ind. with a 6-ft. 4 in., 21-year-old, 200-lb. onetime high-school athlete named J. Edward Wright. When this news was announced by Mrs. Spencer, the Hearstian Evening American gave it an eight-column, front-page streamer headline. Col. William Franklin Knox's Daily News front-paged the story with a two-column picture of the bride. The tabloid Times devoted its entire front page to Mary Belle, followed up inside with strips of pictures, additional copy...
...Editor & Publisher, which he joined in 1924 after resigning from the Hearstian International News Service "on principle," Editor Pew found a resounding forum for his views. Among his antipathies is Gossip Columnist Walter Winchell, who tried to make capital of the Philadelphia jailing and was ringingly denounced by Editor Pew as: "A Broadway scavenger ... a physical coward ... a journalistic gangster...