Word: hearsts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks will not call a press conference until he can get off an optimistic statement," wrote Hearst's jocose Columnist George Dixon last week. "This has led the press to refer to his seminars as 'cheery outlooks.' " When newsmen gathered in Weeks's office later that morning, Weeks was still chuckling over Dixon's dig. As usual, the Secretary was also brimming with optimism. Said he: "I think the outlook is still cheery...
Frederick J. Marker, Jr. '59 is the New England finalist in the Hearst Oratory contest. Marker will now compete against several other students from other parts of the country in the finals. Governor Christian Herter '15 is chairman of the contest...
Outbidding Hearst, Meyer bought the Post anonymously at auction for a bargain $825,000 in 1933-four years after he had offered $5,000,000 and been turned down. He found it "mentally, morally, physically and in every other way bankrupt," the raddled plaything of oil-rich Playboy Edward ("Ned") McLean. A horse fancier, gaudy Publisher McLean once devoted three of the paper's four sports pages to agate tables on racing performances. He brought his mistress to editorial conferences (so his wife, Evalyn Walsh McLean, charged in a divorce action) and made the old Post building on Pennsylvania...
...time in Texas, Wall Street and Washington as in Calgary. No man to overlook a good investment wherever he is, McMahon helped back two Broadway musicals (Pajama Game, Plain and Fancy), turned a fat profit on both. Last week Millionaire McMahon took time off to be married to onetime Hearst Columnist Betty Betz, 36 (each for the second time), whom he met two years...
Married. Frank McMahon, 53, multimillionaire Canadian oil magnate, chairman of the board of Pacific Petroleums Ltd.; and Betty Betz, 36, fashion designer and onetime Hearst-syndicated columnist on teen-age doings; in Branford, Conn. (see BUSINESS...