Word: hearsts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...casualty was the Weekly's editor, aging (69) Walter Howey, prototype of The Front Page's Managing Editor Walter Burns. Just four days before his death, Hearst removed Howey and replaced him with mild Ken McCaleb, 50, who had done an able job of sparking up the New York Mirror's Sunday magazine. Howey, himself one of the eight executors named in Hearst's will,* remains as an "editorial consultant" and editor of the Boston Hearstpapers, but reportedly his power is on the wane...
Those closest to young Hearst predict that he will soon drop such Hearstian acts as antivivisection campaigns, try to get a note of restraint into editorials. Young Bill has a tough job; the Hearst chain, long faltering, was saved mainly by the lush advertising of World War II and the ensuing boom, plus stringent economies. Most of the top brass is now 60 or over, and new blood is needed in the top command. In Hearst shops, the talk is that young Bill will want some changes made...
WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST...
Second, ablest and most energetic of the Hearst sons, tall (6 ft. 1 in.) and balding at 43, he looks remarkably like his father, but lacks old W.R.'s iron will and steel-trap mind. But of all the sons, Bill has worked hardest at earning his newspaper spurs. While attending a small military academy in San Rafael, Calif., he spent his vacations working as a "flyboy" in the New York Mirror pressroom, after two years at University of California left school to work as a police-station cub for the old New York American...
...prized American Weekly on top of his Journal-American job, and Bill was clearly marked as the empire's crown prince. Twice divorced, he was married three years ago to pretty Austine ("Bootsie") Cassini, society gossipist for Washington's McCormick-owned Times-Herald (her column is now Hearst-syndicated) and ex-wife of the Journal-American's own Igor (Cholly Knickerbocker) Cassini. The Hearsts shuttle between Washington and Manhattan, have one child, two-year-old William Randolph...