Word: hearsts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...comes to all Hearst sons, a top Hearst job came last week to Randolph Apperson Hearst, 34. After three years as executive editor, then associate publisher, handsome, slick-haired Randy Hearst took over as full-fledged publisher of Hearst's San Francisco Call-Bulletin (circ. 152,135). Randy, who had broken in as a cub on his father's San Francisco Examiner, was thus even up with twin brother David, publisher of the Los Angeles Herald & Express, and older brother William Randolph Jr., publisher of the New York Journal-American...
...Near Yongdong, Korea, Gerassimos ("Mike") Gigantes, 27, a Greek-born correspondent for Hearst's International News Service, the London Observer and Radio Athens, was ambushed in a jeep by North Korean machine gunners. Wounded in the hand and thigh, Gigantes (who used the byline "Philip Deane") was captured...
Early Bird. In the impasse, New Yorkers, thirsting for war news, lapped up Hearst's Journal-American, and the tabloid Post. Wall Streeters were also sending out for the Newark (N.J.) News, the only nearby afternoon paper that prints the complete stock market tables. All that the W-T & S could offer were daily sports broadcasts with this hopeful commercial: "Brought to you by the New York World-Telegram and Sun-a newspaper worth waiting...
...ridgeline above the Kum River last week, three U.S. correspondents watched an outnumbered, outgunned battalion of G.I.s fight a desperate delaying action. Only one of the newsmen, the New York Herald Tribune's Homer Bigart, got back to write about it. The others, Ray Richards of Hearst's International News Service and Corporal Ernie Peeler of Stars and Stripes, were killed as they ran for a jeep when the battalion was cut off. Richards was shot through the head, Peeler through the chest. They were the first newsmen to die in the Korean...
...oldtimer, had been on & off the firing line ever since (at 22) he covered Pershing's expedition against Pancho Villa for the old Denver Morning World. Later, Richards worked for newspapers in Honolulu, Tokyo and Shanghai, and covered the Sino-Japanese war. A onetime assistant city editor of Hearst's Los Angeles Examiner, Richards was its Washington correspondent when he took leave last fall to go to Korea as a special adviser on international affairs to President Syngman Rhee. He was planning to come home as war broke...