Word: hearsts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surprise of the staff, the biggest news at Hearst's Chicago American last week broke on its city-room bulletin board: the American, with an afternoon circulation of 524,823 and a Sunday edition of 706,407, had been sold to the Chicago Tribune. The Trib announced that the American would go on publishing with its present management. Reported price: about $12 million, which newsmen called "fantastically high...
...Sport & Hearst. The Communists can also blame the Kremlin for much of the trouble.The recent downgrading of Stalin, with all its agonizing zigzags in Red doctrine has confused and disgruntled even the most faithful readers. Beyond that, as international tensions ease and Italy's economy grows stronger. Communist rantings about the West are beginning to ring hollow to many Italians. Admits Giancarlo Pajetta. Italy's No. 2 Communist and the Reds' press boss: "Less international tension is bad for the party press. People lose interest...
...lost readers by aping capitalist papers. L'Unita, once top-heavy with Marxist polemics, now goes easy on the politics, is substituting more news about the U.S., more sports and entertainment, is even going in for sensational tabloid-type crime stories. It takes eight wire services, including Hearst's International News Service, and plans to send a special correspondent to cover the Olympics in Melbourne this fall...
When nobody would hop when he said frog, Harry Truman turned viciously on Stevenson. Interviewed by Publisher William Randolph Hearst Jr., Truman said Stevenson "should have been taken off the platform" when, in his 1952 acceptance speech, he mentioned the possibility of a Democratic defeat. "In politics," snapped Harry Truman, "the other fellow's wrong and you're right. You cannot have a defeatist attitude." Later that day, dictating a statement to newsmen, Truman said he was convinced Stevenson "could not carry a single state in addition to what he did carry" in 1952.* At a press conference...
...Lucille Clement, wife of Tennessee's give-'em-hellfire Governor Frank G. Clement, the convention's bombastic keynoter. Mother of three boys, Lucille, 36, whose figure is one of modern polities' most attractive gerrymanders, took time out to model some cute creations for a Hearst lensman...