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...money. It's the fun of making money and watching it grow." As Lowenstein puts it, Buffett acquired while growing up "an overly reverent view of money's proper role, as if spending were a sort of sinfulness." Years later, on a tour of San Simeon, the William Randolph Hearst mansion in California, Buffett grew impatient with a guide and blurted out, "Don't tell us how he spent [his money]. Tell us how he made...
...Like other high-end offerings, its glossy editions feature gorgeous photography, closeups of sweaty petals and buxom peonies, landscapes that cry to be painted. Here the advertisers are more likely to be selling single-malt Scotch and leather goods than power mowers. For the more modest-and practical-Hearst has launched Country Living Gardener, and Meredith offers Home Garden. Conda Nast will re-enter the gardening market in the fall of 1996 with the defunct HG, relaunched as House & Garden, under new editor Dominique Browning...
...Houston Post was sold to the Hearst Corp., which immediately shut down the 110-year-old paper, a rival to Hearst's Houston Chronicle. The Post's original owners blamed its demise on the rising cost of newsprint...
...standing-room-only crowd of 1,700 watched as nearly 100 models and dancers cavorted on a multilevel stage. He had the finest flowering of supermodeldom, plus drop-ins by former Hitchcock star (The Birds) Tippi Hedren-one of whose gowns was decorated with feathers-and heiress Patty Hearst. Mugler is about the only person left who presents corsets and bustiers, but at least he made them sexy...
...Citizen Kane," loosely based on the life of media magnate William Randolph Hearst, follows the rise and fall of a national celebrity whose initial passion for championing the "working man" is replaced by an obsession with embodying his own myth. Welles, who co-wrote, directed and produced the film, plays the cynical multimillionaire from his idealistic college days through his demise, old and forgotten in the "Xanadu" he has built to himself...