Word: hearstly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...onetime Hollywood queen and longtime friend and helpmate of Newspaper Tycoon William Randolph Hearst last week talked about her "current consuming interest": real estate. Said Marion Davies, now fiftyish: "Land is the most important thing in the world because it's God-given, and should be developed...
Financial Advice. A liking for revenue-producing land is nothing new with Marion (says she of jewelry: "All you do is pay insurance"). She remembers her first purchase: around 1936, "I was walking down Park Avenue with Arthur Brisbane [onetime Hearst editor and partner-in-real-estate with his chief], and he pointed to a big piece of land and said, 'Marion, you should buy that; it will bring you $500,000 a year.' " The advice prompted Marion to start buying real estate, with funds from her Cosmopolitan Productions, the company that Hearst had set up to make...
...claimed to be of Irish-Indian descent.* Last week Editor Reese was facing a new kind of challenge. An opposition weekly, the Mount Dora Herald, had been started with the encouragement of residents who find the Topic too true to be good. Its owner: Thomas P. Dwyer, onetime Chicago Hearst reporter who has been Midwest sales and advertising director for the Conover-Mast trade publications...
...Smear. In the first issue of Confidential, Harrison ran an article buttering up Hearst Columnist Walter Winchell. It paid off. Winchell promptly became a one-man promotion agency for the magazine, fired with new enthusiasm for it every time Confidential ran another article praising him or attacking his enemies. (Harrison obligingly became a contributor to Winchell's Damon Runyon Memorial Fund.) Harrison also found a way to use Confidential articles over and over again in another of his magazines, Whisper ("The Stones Behind the Headlines...
Confidential's small staff works under Editor Howard Rushmore, onetime Communist who was fired as a Hearst reporter (TIME, Nov. 1), partly for contributing in his spare time to Confidential. The editors write Confidential's articles in breezy, breathless tabloid prose, always promising more than they give ("This article will shock you"). One of the best descriptions of the kind of reporting in Confidential and its imitators came from one of the imitators, Top Secret. Said Top Secret: "How cunningly the smear is constructed. It says nothing with finality. It doesn't come right out and claim...