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...turned to Zelig. After licking his affliction, Zelig became a model of the determined battler who overcame his troubles. "That shows what you can do if you're a total psychotic," he told millions of children in a radio message. He appeared at celebrity bashes, dining with William Randolph Hearst, golfing with Bobby Jones...
Founded in 1874, the paper dates its rise from 1924, when it was bought by a former police official, Matsutaro Shoriki. A business associate of the American press lord William Randolph Hearst, Shoriki echoed Hearst's populist impulses in his own dictum, "Do not trust experts because they know nothing of the masses...
Scores of famous names flutter effortlessly from Selznick's pages: Anita Loos, Irving Thalberg, Sam Goldwyn, Janet Gaynor, Katharine Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman, Greta Garbo and Uncle William, known at the office as Mr. Hearst. Banker-Politician Averell Harriman coached her in bridge and croquet, and Howard Hughes wanted her to be his "woman friend" because, as Go-Between Gary Grant suggested, she was a "tested product...
...trade, a Free Press employee looks up at rows of photographs of Motor City reporters, lawmen and politicians and says, "I think you have to be dead to be up there." That is certainly true of one picture; it shows a building that once housed the Detroit Times, a Hearst daily that shut down in 1960 and threw the city's two surviving papers into a decades-long, unresolved and unfriendly battle for dominance...
...credibility." Advertisers, however, have not been buying. Edward Eskandarian, president of the Boston advertising agency Humphrey Browning MacDougall Inc., explained: "The Herald has an older, downscale audience, while the Globe delivers the $35,000-and-up households." John Morton, dean of newspaper industry analysts, summarized the struggle ahead: "Hearst has already Murdochized the Boston paper. I do not know what more Murdoch himself...