Word: hearsts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hearst Obit...
...tremendous legal battle is in prospect. But if the opposition tries to prove that Hearst had been incompetent when he made Miss Davies boss, it will have to hurdle the fact that to the very end, all Hearstlings had made a great to-do about the clarity of old W.R.'s mind...
Hard Choice. Miss Davies did not like the prospect of fighting her way through court. Said she: "I would do anything in the world to avoid hurting the boys [Hearst's sons]. After all, they're half of W.R." But she also knew what she thought she had to do: "I'm not the fighting type, but I don't believe in disregarding W.R.'s wishes. He had a reason for having the agreement drawn up. He thought I was the one who understood best what his policies and principles were and that I could...
Miss Davies has opinions of her own on what is good and bad in the Hearst press. For one thing, she has no use for Columnist Westbrook Pegler. Said she, in the most surprising (to Hearst readers) statement of the week: "Both W.R. and I always had great respect for Eleanor Roosevelt. She is a great woman . . . When Pegler started hacking at Mrs. Roosevelt day after day, it got boring and annoying . . . W.R. wired Pegler many times to cut it out; each time Pegler laid it on thicker . . . I never read his stuff any more...
...figure commonly bandied about is $200 million. Actually, no one will know the real value of Hearst's estate until his executors have made an appraisal for purposes of federal inheritance taxes. To make it, they will first have to thread their way through his maze of personal holdings (ranches, mines, oil wells, real estate, art treasures) and interlocking corporations, discover how much has been encumbered by debt, how much previously sold...