Word: hearstly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MANY people have tried to explain the extraordinary success of Louella Parsons. The story has gone the rounds for years that, as she puts it in her autobiography, she was "supposed to know 'something' "-presumably about her boss, William Randolph Hearst, whom she steadfastly revered through the 29 years she worked for him. Careful research has still to uncover any evidence to support this legend...
...Stevenson California newsletter with a tiny circulation. Had the Herex bothered to check the "gossip"? "Certainly," answered City Editor Aggie Underwood, "we phoned two or three local Democratic leaders. They just hummed and said that it was interesting." As to why no other papers in or out of the Hearst chain picked up the item. Editor Underwood had a pat explanation. Said she: "It was a purely local story...
Meanwhile, Hearst's Journal-American interviewed Mrs. Bernie by phone and broke out an "exclusive": BERNIE WIDOW CALLS ROSE'S STORY 'LIES.' Mrs. Bernie, said the Journal, wanted to remind Billy of his days as a syndicated columnist. Then Eleanor was the model of a faithful wife and often the star of his column. "Billy knows as well as I do that Eleanor is a fine girl. She was a wonderful wife and he told everybody how great she was. He wrote it in his columns . . . and he knows she is still the same girl...
...controversy began three weeks ago when Wechsler appeared at a pretrial hearing in a $1,000,000 libel suit filed against the Post by Editor Jack Lait of Hearst's New York Mirror and Nightclub Columnist Lee Mortimer. They charged that they were libeled in the Post's review of their book, U.S.A. Confidential (TIME, May 26). At the hearing, Wechsler testified to some personal history that had already been widely publicized: at 18, when he was an undergraduate at Columbia University, he joined the Young Communist League and quit 3½ years later. Wechsler has never concealed...
...story carried no byline, but it was written by Hearst Reporter Howard Rushmore, who until 1940 was a member of the Communist Party himself and a staffer on the Daily Worker...