Word: hearsts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...small (5 ft. 3 in.), publicity-shy New Yorker. Like his last two buys, the Portland Oregonian and the St. Louis Globe-Democrat (TIME, April 4), the purchase of the News put Newhouse into a new region of the U.S. It also put him right behind the Hearst and Scripps-Howard chains, with an empire of 13 newspapers (total circ. 3,576,320) worth an estimated $70 million. The News was sold by its five trustees, heirs of the late Publisher Victor Henry Hanson, who, over 36 years, built the News (daily circ. 180,215, Sunday circ. 219,804) into...
...Firing from 75 ft. at a bull's-eye only 1⅓ inches wide, White House Policeman William S. Crawford scored 289 points out of a possible 300 to win the William Randolph Hearst international pistol tournament and earn a letter of com mendation from Dwight D. Eisenhower, the man whose life his marksmanship is meant to protect...
Coached by game captain Ira J. Rimson, quarterback Peter Hearst, and manager James A. Austrian, the Bellboys remained scoreless until the last two minutes of the game, when halfback Bob Gebelein crossed into the end zone to complete a 40-yard drive...
Nearly six years after he first brought a libel suit against Hearst Columnist Westbrook Pegler, former War Correspondent Quentin Reynolds last week got ready to collect. The U.S. Supreme Court ended the long legal battle by refusing to review a New York federal jury's $175,001 award to Reynolds (TIME, July 5, 1954 et seq.), after Pegler branded him a nudist and coward...
...Pegler will not be out of pocket: under his contract Hearst is liable for the tab, which will run to more than $200,000, counting attorneys' fees and 6% interest from the day of judgment. Nor is the fat award all pure gravy for Reynolds. The U.S. Internal Revenue Service now has a lien against him for $40,000 for back taxes, also expects to collect income tax on the whole sum. But Reynolds' lawyer believes that the sum is taxfree; thus the award may land in court again...