Word: hearstman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...