Word: hearsts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Song of Sorrow. Oldtime Cinemactress Marion Davies, the woman who had shared his life for three decades, did not attend. At her spreading Beverly Hills home, where Hearst had spent his last days and where he died, she told a nurse: "I had thought I might go to church this morning, but I will just stay here alone. He knew how I felt about him, and I know how he felt about...
...after his death, she sat behind drawn shades, Hearst's doleful dachshund Helena beside her. She absently whispered a song: "Little old lady in a big red room, little old lady ..." To a visiting newsman, she spoke of happier days: "About four and a half years ago, we came here and quieted down. Before that, it was San Simeon and guests all the time. Hundreds of them. Oh, it was gay, let me tell you! We were riding and swimming and playing tennis, and Mr. Hearst was very active then. I remember the animals at San Simeon...
When she awakened, Hearst's sons had already removed their father's body, and the Hearst sons and retainers, summoned for the great man's end, had vanished. Said Marion Davies: "They didn't even let me say goodbye." Most of Hearst's effects were removed at the same time. On the bedside desk remained only a calling card (General of the Army Douglas MacArthur), and a large photograph of Miss Davies, which he had always kept beside him. It was inscribed "To W.R. from Marion," with a quotation from Romeo and Juliet...
Only a few days before, she had been The Chief's principal link with his empire, relaying his telephoned commands: "The Chief suggests . . ." The Hearst-papers had chronicled her every move. Now they stopped mentioning her. Even her courier-delivered daily copies of the two Los Angeles Hearstpapers were summarily...
...Order. This sudden change in the old order of things was quickly manifested in other ways. Within 20 minutes of The Chief's death, Richard E. Berlin, top operating boss of the Hearst chain, swept into the Davies home, told the guards and nurses: "You are all working for me now." Berlin, now second only to William Randolph Hearst Jr. in power, was likely to take a bigger share of command all down the empire's line. Both Hearst and Berlin well knew the empire was ailing; in 1951's first six months, even the profits...