Word: hearstly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shuster, Harcourt and Brace, and Alfred Knopf all went there; so did Rodgers and Hart and Hammerstein II. In the newspaper field, Columbia boasts a variety of opinion-makers, from the Times's Arthur Hays Sulzberger to the New York Post's Editor James Wechsler to Hearst Columnist George Sokolsky...
Busy at her chores as Washington society columnist, picture-pretty Austine ("Bootsie") McDonnell Cassini Hearst, 33, has had trouble finding enough time for her children and husband, Publisher William R. Hearst Jr., boss of the 16-newspaper and magazine empire. Last week the family won out. In her column, "Under My Hat," published in the Washington Times-Herald (syndicated to ten other papers as "Washington Whirl"), she wrote: "Ah Washington! After more than ten years of covering the Washington parade ... I shall soon say goodbye to a regular deadline . . . Mostly for two very good reasons−my two little sons...
Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, already heavily laden with treasures, got some more rich stuffing. In the museum's vast Great Hall, four magnificent 16th century Flemish tapestries, each 14 ft. by 24 ft., went on display last week. They were a gift of the Hearst Foundation, in memory of one of history's most assiduous art collectors, William Randolph Hearst...
Whether the new building remedied this problem has since been debated, but the fund-raising campaign, boosted by William Randolph Hearst, was a cheering success. Soon a triangular lot bounded by Plympton, Bow, and Mt. Auburn Streets was purchased, and architect Edmund Wheelwright, one of the Lampoon founders, was commissioned to design the building...
After pointing this out, Hearst's Daily Mirror, the News's arch rival (whose circulation has slipped as much), needled the News some more, saying: "They also said they originate and others only imitate . . . Heck, we remember last summer when the Mirror started the great 'Lucky Buck' game that set the city and the nation on its ear . . . Weeks went by. Our friends ignored it. Then we heard [the News was] holding meetings . . . All those brains! All that money! What were they going to come up with? Then came B-day. Our friends brought forth something...