Word: hearstly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chancel and set between two crosses of white lilies. From the Book of Common Prayer, the Rt. Rev. Karl Morgan Block, Episcopal Bishop of California, intoned the funeral service, without sermon or eulogy. At that moment, in the grimy office of the Examiner, a few blocks away, and in Hearst-papers across the land, typewriters and linotypes stilled their clatter, and for a few minutes the plants lay in silence. William Randolph Hearst had stopped the presses for the last time...
...escort of motorcycle police guided the cortege of 22 black limousines to the cemetery. In the bright noon sunlight, dappling through Japanese plum trees, the casket was placed on a grassy knoll before the marble-columned mausoleum where Hearst's parents lie. Bishop Block read a poem, The Song of the River, which W.R. himself had written for his papers...
...weeds, William Randolph Hearst's widow, almost a stranger to him for his last 29 years, walked slowly around the casket. As the family and friends departed, the curious lingered, plucked souvenirs from the hundreds of wreaths...
...long last, contentious, vigorous William Randolph Hearst found tranquillity...
...Ironically, Hearst's doctor did advance heart research by experiments on dogs (TIME, March 28, 1949). But Antivivisectionist Hearst, whose fees helped pay for the project, was never told. *For producing, directing and starring in the motion picture of the same name, a satire on the life of The Chief, Orson Welles suffered the nearest thing to excommunication that Mr. Hearst could inflict. For years the offending genius could not be mentioned at all in Hearst-papers...