Word: hearstly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four Los Angeles dailies last week jacked their prices up from 7? to a dime. The city's fifth paper, the tabloid Mirror, jumped from 5? to 7?. Explained Hearst's Examiner: "It costs just three times as much to print and distribute the Examiner today as it did in 1940." Newsprint costs alone had rocketed from...
...William Randolph Hearst's trained seals, none were quicker on their flippers than the correspondents in his Washington bureau. When The Chief snapped, they did verbal, handstands for MacArthur, steadily honked that Dean Acheson was being fired any minute, tugged in pet Congressmen to sound off on any Hearstian cause...
...last week the seal act was broken up. It was the first big shake-up since W. R. Hearst Jr. moved into the empire's top editorial spot. Washington Bureau Chief Edward C. Lapping was moved to Chicago as executive editor of the Hearst Herald-American, and four other staffers were either shifted or discharged. Only two of the office staff were left: Dave Sentner, who now will boss the bureau, and Bill Flythe. Newsmen wondered whether the shake-up might mean a change in Hearst policies. A likelier reason was that the ailing Hearst empire was starting...
...Hearst's sententious Editor Arthur Brisbane was on his way to interview Henry Ford in Manhattan when he saw a policeman dragging a small, hard-faced U.S. sailor out of the Customs House. The sailor, just released from the Navy after a seven-year hitch, had got in a quarrel with customs men, and was knocking them down right & left until the cop subdued him. Editor Brisbane liked the bantam gamecock's looks, got him released, and took him along to meet the auto magnate. On hearing Brisbane's account of the battle, Ford told 24-year...
Crime Syndicated (Tues. 9 p.m., CBS-TV). Since his standout performance as special counsel of the Senate Crime Investigating Committee last March, Rudolph Halley has become a political candidate (for president of the New York City Council), a Hearst columnist and a TV actor. In Crime Syndicated, his first sponsored show, Halley takes his audience on a Cook's tour of the underworld. Highlight: a dramatized sketch about dope peddlers, which came to the surprising conclusion that crime does pay, showed how a Government witness was intimidated by hoodlums in court and then murdered before she could testify again...