Word: hearstly
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Died. Ashton Stevens, 78, dean of American theater critics, for 54 years a drama man for Hearst newspapers in New York, San Francisco and Chicago (40 years on the Herald-American and predecessors); of a coronary occlusion; in Chicago. A mild-mannered, rarely caustic critic, he once defined his aim: "To be right if possible; to be read, if possibler...
...Among them: Society Columnist Austine ("Bootsie") Hearst; Society Hostess Gwen Cafritz; Society Divorcee Nina Lunn; Margaret Thors, daughter of the Icelandic minister; Elena Machado, the host's daughter...
...delegate to the Republican Washington state conventions of '46 and '48, I feel compelled to say this: the Republican Party, as represented by Taft, Wiley, Smith, Hickenlooper, Cain, McCarthy, Martin, "Bertie" McCormick and Hearst, is on mighty thin ice. The weight of sound logic lies with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the U.N. and Truman...
...most editors, the pathetic picture from Martins Ferry, Ohio was surefire human interest. It showed eleven-year-old Roger McConnaughey holding his dead dog Rusty, just run over by an automobile. But Hearst's Chicago Herald-American, ever mindful of their chief's campaign against vivisection, put the picture on Page One for a different reason. It duly noted the facts about Roger and Rusty, continued: "Roger's sorrow parallels that felt by a child whose pet has been stolen and carved up for vivisection. Bill pending in the Illinois legislature would foster such base thefts...
Personal Affection. Despite his flippancies and irrelevancies, Iddon usually tries to be kind to the U.S. in his own way, often shows a sharp editorial insight. He has cautioned Britons against being shaken by the Anglophobia of such "choleric" isolationist newspapers as the Hearst press, Bertie McCormick's Chicago Tribune and the New York Daily News, and has admonished his readers: "Remember this personal affection of Americans for the British when you read the melancholy stories of abuse...