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...Journal-American had discovered that a German spy was living in the Taft Hotel, and the bureau wondered where the information had come from). "Just wait'll I tell those bastards at school," said Ralph, who had been heckled because his father, being a Hearstman, was held responsible for starting the Spanish-American War. The bastards were more impressed by Paul's Pulitzer Prize...
Unchained. Goldwater could not even count, it seemed, on the support of the major Republican-leaning newspaper chains. The ten Hearst papers, which endorsed Nixon in 1960, are expected to favor Johnson this year-a prediction confirmed by a Hearstman who sits in the chain's policymaking councils. Scripps-Howard's 17 papers, which also backed Nixon last time, haven't yet had their say. But in conversation last week President Jack R. Howard dropped a broad hint. "We endorsed Johnson as the Democratic nominee in 1960," he said, "because many of the things he stood...
Although Predecessor Weise had stumbled over the issue of business-office meddling under McCall Corporation President Arthur Langlie, ex-Hearstman Mayes laid down the same law-and made it stick. "I'd rather shoot myself," he says, "than take any guff off the business side." From Good Housekeeping he brought with him a smooth team, including Managing Editor Margaret Cousins. Then Mayes began thinning out McCall's syrupy "togetherness" campaign; the "togetherness" legend no longer appears on McCall's covers. On taking over, he coolly dumped $400,000 worth of stories and articles because they were...
Even when Hearstman Bob Clark cited a Des Moines Register & Tribune report totaling Ike's personal assets at $1,000,000, the President was unruffled. Said he: "If that man who knows so much about my business will offer me a million dollars to sell out, he is going to make a sale in a hurry." To Clark's blunt needle about a possible Eisenhower "conflict of interest problem," the President replied that although as an elected official he is not subject to U.S. conflict-of-interest laws, after the 1952 election he transferred the bulk...
...bring Trippe to heel, Tom Morgan teamed up with Banker Colt, (Another board member, Manhattan banker & Hearstman John Wesley Hanes, was in, then out of the cabal.) They argued that Pan Am's fortunes were at a low point politically. Trippe's Chosen Instrument talk had so stirred up the Administration that even President Truman had stepped in to make sure that Pan Am would have plenty of competition (TIME, June...