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...Died. Millicent V. Hearst, 92, widow of legendary Press Lord William Randolph Hearst Sr.; in Manhattan. A former chorine, Mrs. Hearst was estranged from her husband for more than three decades before his death in 1951, dividing her time among society functions, charity and travel...
...other young women radicals as Kathy Boudin, who fled a bombed-out Greenwich Village town house in 1970, and Patricia Swinton, charged as a co-conspirator with Alpert but never found by police, may also come in out of the cold. A more intriguing question was whether Heiress Patricia Hearst is either willing or able to escape her radical abductors and re-embrace the family she has publicly as sailed...
Citizen Kane [1941]. Produced by Orson Welles, directed by Welles, and starring Welles, this American film classic is about the rise and fall of a newspaper emperor, Charles Foster Kane, a shallow disguise for his real-life counterpart, William Randolph Hearst. Hearst was so enraged by Welles's film that he suppressed it in many areas of the country. Welles co-authored the script too, with Herman J. Mankiewicz, who later had a major altercation with Hearst when he crashed into a car belonging to a friend of the newspaper king--right outside one of Hearst's lavish estates...
Zuno. It had even produced a photo of the old man in captivity, standing in front of a poster of two crossed submachine guns and looking disheveled, and a tape recording in which he supposedly agreed, à la Patty Hearst, with his captors' aims. "He is a bourgeois and represents the exploiting class," said the kidnapers' proclamation. "We social fighters are obliged to use revolutionary means." The group demanded $1.6 million in ransom and the release often political prisoners, all leftists. Both requests were officially ignored by the government. Then last Saturday he was released...
California: home of Richard Nixon, Charlie Manson, Patty Hearst and the SLA. California: the only state where Hollywood stars can tap dance their way into the political arena. California: land of sunshine, palm trees, and earthquakes...