Word: hearsts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...services ranging from "not doing a damn thing" to helping out in the publicity department. The payroll was discovered by the Journal-Bulletin as a result of a state investigation on whether the track could afford to pay higher taxes. Organizer of the sportswriters working for the track: Hearst's Boston Record Columnist Dave Egan, who doubled as Rockingham's pressagent at more than $5,000 a year. It was Egan who had arranged for the reporters, including six other staffers of the morning Record and its sister afternoon paper, the American, to be paid by the track...
...page ad that ran in the Boston Post and six New York, Chicago and other metropolitan papers last week. What was happening, as an accompanying chart made clear, was that the Post had gained more than 100,000 advertising lines over a year ago, v. a minute gain for Hearst's Record-American, a drop of more than 175,000 lines for the Globe, and a drop of more than 300,000 for the Herald-Traveler. What was also happening in Boston was the hottest newspaper war in years...
Died. Jacquin Leonard (Jack) Lait, 71, oldtime Chicago newspaperman, since 1936 editor of Hearst's tabloid New York Mirror (circ. 913,691 daily, 1,664,703 Sunday); after long illness; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Editor Lait doubled the Mirror's circulation, with Nightclub Columnist Lee Mortimer turned out four controversial "Confidential" guides to U.S. scandal and vice. Asked how he kept up his prodigious writing output (8 plays, 20 books, 1,500 short stories), Author Lait rasped: "Fiction is a cinch. I just set the screw in my head for 2,800 words, and out it comes...
California's state legislature voted to accept from the estate of the late William Randolph Hearst his $25 million castle, whose ramparts overlook the Pacific at San Simeon, and make it a historical monument, its 3O3-acre grounds a public park...
Died. Walter C. (for Crawford) Howey, 72, onetime holy terror of Chicago journalism, immortalized as the managing editor in The Front Page (by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur), since 1930 editorial director of the Boston Hearst papers, the Record, the American, the Sunday Advertiser (total circ. 1,748,437); in Boston. In Chicago, Howey became city editor of the Tribune at 25, editor of the Hearst Her aid-Examiner ten years later. Ignoring events outside Chicago, Editor Howey concentrated on local mayhem and scandal, paid police-switchboard operators to tip him off on the latest crime, delighted in planting fake...