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...Swanberg (Citizen Hearst; Pulitzer) handles these early chapters with only hints of polemics to come. The existence of the invading Japanese, for example, who were, after all, the first cause for American aid to China, is barely mentioned because Swanberg wants to suggest that U.S. aid to China was all Luce's fault. Still, one has a sense of Luce as a human being, of issues thoughtfully considered, and of the practical details of running a large collection of magazines. The threat of Mao and the Communist takeover is just over the horizon. Closer at hand is trouble with...
Richard M. Nixon in the middle of a hair-pulling match? Well, almost. After paying a surprise visit to his Washington campaign headquarters, the President suddenly popped in on the Hearst Newspapers bureau on the same floor. Columnist Marianne Means took advantage of the moment to ask a blunt question: "Can you promise me personally that you will never propose any federal tax increases while you are in the White House?" Just as the President answered "Absolutely," Marianne felt "three good strong tugs" at her shoulder-length blonde hair. Press Secretary Ron Ziegler, who was standing behind her, had chosen...
There is also a plentiful selection of heros for pragmatic temperaments. William Randolph Hearst 1885 made a smash with his pet animals in Matthews 46 before being thrown out at Christmas the next year for presenting inscribed chamber pots to each of his tutors. Horatio Alger 1860 himself started get-rich-quick fabulizing in Hotworthy...
Robert Patterson has always been a reporter of some mystery. In his first stint on the San Francisco Examiner, he wrote a successful column under the pseudonym of Freddie Francisco. Trouble was, his record of past convictions (theft, attempted forgery) came to light, and the elder William Randolph Hearst fired him in 1949. Patterson drifted into ghostwriting and two more prison terms (bad checks, forgery) before the Examiner took him back in 1965. Now 65, he is unemployed again because of a trip to China that possibly never took place...
...copy filling the gaps where windows and air should be. The editorial page is adorned with one of those snappy buglines that saturate the paper, "View Point," and if you can look at the page long enough to read it, you'll find that the editorial position is all Hearst and Record American. Not that the Herald was much different in content, but the tone was more guarded...