Word: hearstly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russian immigrant, has strung together an empire of 13 newspapers. Among them: the Newark Star-Ledger, St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Portland Oregonian, Birmingham News, Syracuse Herald-Journal and Post-Standard. The prosperous Newhouse chain is surpassed in heft and wealth only by Scripps-Howard (21 papers) and Hearst...
...some of the wittiest dinner parties in the nation. No foreign dignitary could say he had been a success in the U.S. until he had been to Sands Point to play a round of big-league croquet against such guests as Averell Harriman, the Marx brothers, William Randolph Hearst Jr. or Swope's late elder brother Gerard, onetime president and board chairman of General Electric. On the croquet court Swope was insufferable: "Now you put your little foot on your ball and drive the other buckety-buckety off into the orchard. Perfect...
Divorced. George ("Fanny") Hearst, 54, eldest son of the late publisher, William Randolph Hearst, vice-president of the Hearst publishing empire; by Collette Lyons Hearst, 46, sometime actress, his fifth wife; after six years of marriage; no children; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...throwing in his hand, William Randolph Hearst Jr. got rid of a hopelessly losing proposition and picked up 25% of what should become a profitmaking business. Hearst did have to pay one heavy price: all U.P. employees will be kept on; most I.N.S. employees will be dropped...
...competition. With a population of more than 2,300,000, metropolitan Boston has six dailies: the staunchly Republican morning Herald (circ. 204,395) and evening Traveler (circ. 186,306) of bustling, bumptious Publisher Robert Choate; the morning Record (circ. 411,971) and evening American (circ. 176,318), both Hearst tabloids; the fusty, fence-straddling morning (circ. 225,162) and evening (149,070) Globes...