Word: hearsts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With just enough changes to avoid libel suits, "Citizen Kane" is the story of William Randolph Hearst. As a skeleton for his plot, Welles uses the interviews of a reporter for a Luce-like organization, who is trying to find out the meaning of the great man's last word. Thinking that this word, "rosebud," might be the key to the whole life of Charles Foster Kane, the reporter speaks to Kane's second wife, his business manager, and his best friend. Thus the story unfolds in snatches and flashbacks, often going over the same scenes twice, but from different...
...done so much to whip the saloon. Cannon's favorite tactic was to sue his detractors for huge amounts in libel suits that he tried to settle for small amounts out of court. In his day he sued a Congressman for $500,000 and William Randolph Hearst for a total of $7,500,000. He lost the one, settled the Hearst suits out of court, also lost his suits against TIME, which had called him "reactionary," and LIFE, which had said he was "bigoted...
...Oklahoman didn't quite realize what it was letting itself in for. The wire services picked up the story, landed it in newspapers across the U.S. In New York, Hearst's tabloid Daily Mirror offered $200 in prizes for the best letters of advice to Mrs. H. In three days, 3,000 letters from every state and Canada flooded into the Oklahoman's city rooms; the telephones rang constantly with long-distance callers. Four out of ten letter-writers advised Mrs. H. to seek comfort in God; one letter suggested consolation in whisky. Hundreds urged...
Ruppel moved to Crowell-Collier's as assistant to Board Chairman Tom Beck, then joined the Marines. After the war, Hearst hired him, sent him back to Chicago as $40,000-a-year executive editor of the Her aid-American. But Ruppel's slam-bang civic cleanup campaign (DIRTY SHIRT TOWN) backfired, and Hearst bought up his contract...
...first philosopher to make truth pay, and like Jesus I went among the sinners by getting my articles printed in the Tory and Hearst press . . . William Morris died weeping for the poor, I'll die denouncing poverty . . . The girl Leigh [Actress Vivien Leigh] was round today [and] I thought of walking . . . with her to attract attention to myself . . . Was [Rilke] a poet? ... I am not certain whether Picasso is the name of the latest car or a horse . . . Burne-Jones was a great artist . . . [Joseph] Conrad [once] challenged me to a duel. Unfortunately, [H.G.] Wells...