Word: hearstly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Publisher William Randolph Hearst advanced $200,000 to finance the Graf Zeppelin's globe-trot. In return, correspondents for his newspapers and his alone (in the U. S.) were carried on the flight. When Commander Dr. Hugo Eckener steamed up New York Harbor last fortnight on an official welcoming tug after getting back to Lakehurst, eager Hearst photographers snapped him and snapped him; eager Hearst editors spread the photographs on flaring Hearst pages in the grand finale of Publisher Hearst's world "scoop" of the flight...
Married. Capt. Sir George Hubert Wilkins, 40, Australian polar flyer. Graf Zeppelin passenger and Hearst correspondent; and Suzanne Bennett, 28. Australia-born actress (Vanities, The Cyclone Lover); in Cleveland...
...Only nine passengers made the full Lakehurst-Lakehurst round trip. They were Karl von Wiegand (Hearst correspondent), Sir George Hubert Wilkins (Hearst correspondent), Lady Grace Drummond lay (Hearst correspondent), Robert Hartman (Hearst photographer), Lieut.-Commander Charles Emery Rosendahl (Hearst guest, U. S. Naval observer), Lieut. Jack C. Richardson (U. S. Naval observer), William B. Leeds (rich playboy), Joachim Rickard (correspondent for Spanish newpapers), Heinz von Eschwege-Lichbert (German journalist...
...takeoff from Mines Field, Los Angeles, among the celebrities present were Publisher William Randolph Hearst, whose $200,000 for exclusive reporting rights made the world flight possible at this time, and pert Cinemactress Marion Davies, Hearst friend. A radio announcer saw them together and to the listening world exclaimed: "Here's Hearst, big publisher-backer of this epochal flight. And who's with him? None other than dainty Miss Davies. Won't you speak a few words, Miss Davies?" Miss Davies, somewhat tremulously, complied. The announcer then called on Mr. Hearst. He refused...
...Passengers to Germany numbered 17. With them went plenty of food, 12 quarts of Philadelphia whiskey, six quarts of Philadelphia brandy, freight, letters including one on Edgar Allan Poe's 1844 newspaper hoax that a flying machine had crossed the Atlantic in three days. The Hearst people remained behind. Mr. von Wiegand rested. Lady Drummond-Hay cuddled to her parents, Mr. & Mrs. Sidney Thomas Leftbridge, who had just reached Manhattan from London. They found her "two shades darker than she was before she started . . . handsomer than ever." Sir George Hubert Wilkins hurried to Cleveland and shyly married Suzanne Bennett, actress...