Word: hearstly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Council blundered at the noon election by leaving Peter S. Hearst name off the ballot. After lunch Hearst was asked how he and his friends felt about the error and said, "We are disappointed that all the work we have put into the Smoker campaign has been in vain, and feel that the only fair way of making up for the mistake would be to hold another election with my name on the ballot...
...piece, the monumental hoard of art and knickknacks collected by the late William Randolph Hearst is going under the auctioneer's hammer. The latest group, some 300 pieces of old arms and armor, sold in Manhattan last week for a total of $40,810. The sale included a 16th century burgonet (helmet with cheek-pieces), the highest priced item, which went to a private collector for $3,200, and a 1560 wheel-lock Italian arquebus which the Metropolitan Museum of Art bought...
...Mariner Brown told the story: "Well, very polite-like I said to Mr. Hearst why didn't he come be friendly and have a drink ... He just said he didn't want to have anything to do with my so-called wife. Well, I tell you, what else could I do but paste...
According to Hearst, things were slightly different: "It was only 10 o'clock and I was tired. On my way out, a waiter comes up and says Captain Brown wants me at his table ... I said no, I was going to bed. Then this guy, this Brown, follows me outside and starts yelling about treating his wife right and all this nonsense. I've known M.D. for a long time. I had enough of her when Dad was alive. I didn't want to sit at her table. After all, Mom is in town...
Brown swung a haymaker. It missed and Hearst countered with a blow that flattened Brown. Complained Brown later: "All those people out there were holding me. One of them even pulled my ring off. I never saw it again . . . When they let go of me, I said 'Bill, you want to forget this whole thing and come in and have a drink?' He said 'Nope.' I said, 'Then you want to fight some more?' He said 'Nope,' and he drove...