Word: hearstly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Editor & Mrs. George Horace Lorimer followed Mr. Ford as White House guests. Publisher & Mrs. William Randolph Hearst came next, for lunch...
Editor George Horace Lorimer's Saturday Evening Post has a weekly circulation of three million. Editor Ray Long's Cosmopolitan (owned by Publisher William Randolph Hearst) has a monthly circulation of 1,620,000. Lately these two able men have been engaged in a little game of magazine golf; and now the score is all even at the turn-Editor Long with Calvin Coolidge's autobiography appearing in Cosmopolitan; Editor Lorimer with a contract for the life story of Alfred Emanuel Smith tucked snugly away in his safe. Last week something occurred to bring forth the question...
Zbyszko v. Hearst. Stanislaus Zbyszko, ponderous wrestler, filed a $250,000 suit against Publisher William Randolph Hearst's New York American. Reason: The American had printed a gorilla's picture side-by-side with that of Wrestler Zbyszko; had commented: "Stanislaus Zbyszko ... is not fundamentally different from the gorilla in physique." Wrestler Zbyszko complained that since the event he had been "shunned and avoided by his wife, relatives, neighbors, associates and other persons...
...well are Homer Guck's name and potency known. When Mr. Hearst's general manager. Col. William Franklin Knox, was running the Sault Ste. Marie (Mich.) News, some 17 years ago, Homer Guck was running two smalltown newspapers nearby, the Houghton Mining Gazette, the Calumet News. The young editors were friends, newstraders. When their ways parted, Col. Knox went to Mr. Hearst's chainpapers, Publisher Guck to Detroit to learn insurance (Detroit Life) and banking (Union Trust Co.), to make a reputation,as a city-booster...
...Knox met his former friend in the office of Mr. Hearst's Detroit Times. Colonel Knox suggested that square-jawed Banker Guck come into the Hearst fold. Banker Guck agreed. After six months of learning Hearst methods on the New York Evening Journal, Newspaperman Guck was sent to San Francisco to general-manage the Hearst Examiner there. Now he is considered ready and able to represent the Hearst interests in Chicago, fabulous city of world's fairs, gang-wars, tallest buildings, youngest university presidents, blatant mayors, model department stores, bursting progress. Having made a mark on both edges...