Word: hearsts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With all the power of his vast fortune, his 16 newspapers and his granite will, the late William Randolph Hearst fought to the end to hold on to his fabulous 1,625,000-acre Mexican ranch, Babicora. His father, Senator George Hearst, had founded the property, picking up land for peanuts in the last days of the 19th century, and his mother, Phoebe Apperson Hearst, expanded the ranch...
...Hearst papers generally gave the story maximum play, while simultaneously cluck-clucking on their editorial pages. Hearst's New York tabloid, the Daily Mirror, which seldom passes up any story with a sex angle, explained to its readers that it ran this "supposedly . . . scientific effort [because] we felt we could not become overpious and fail to publish it." Scripps-Howard editors had local option on how to handle the story, e.g., the San Francisco News ran only an explanation of why it was leaving Kinsey out ("This is adult reading"), while Denver's Rocky Mountain News...
While preparing his memoirs on his White House years for late 1954 publication in LIFE, Harry Truman turned out a little extra literary work on the side: the story of his readjustment to the life of an ordinary citizen for a series ("Mr. Citizen") to be published in Hearst's American Weekly. "Many people do not stop to think what happens to a man who has been President," Truman explained. "We believe that anybody can be President of the United States, and that when he is through, he can go back to being just anybody again...
During the summer doldrums, newspapers give away free dishes, free trips to Miami, free encyclopedias, free almost anything-just to keep circulation going. This summer, Hearst's tabloid New York Mirror is simply giving away money. By last week, after one month of its "Lucky Bucks Treasure Hunt," the Mirror had tossed out some...
...Building (TIME, June 4, 1951). Others, such as Bernard Baruch's secretary, Miss Mary Boyle, and W. Averell Harriman's protege, Philip Stern, research director of the Democratic National Committee, were possibly stand-ins for bigger money. Detroit, which already has three newspapers (the locally owned News, Hearst's Times and Jack Knight's Free Press), buzzed with speculation over whether Moody and his backers would dare to start a new one. Moody had previously made offers to buy the Times and the Free Press, was turned down by both. At week...