Word: hearsts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...proposed postal increase," complained New Yorker Publisher David Michaels, "would go far beyond what the magazine business can support." Richard Deems, Hearst Magazines president, said that his company was "terribly disturbed." John J. McCarthy, a vice president of Dow Jones & Co. (the Wall Street Journal), viewed the figures as "horrendous...
Hydrant Stops. Pope admits to affection for the "oldfashioned stunts of the Hearst-Pulitzer days." He is now dreaming of a transcontinental train race between Rail Buffs Jackie Gleason and Dan Blocker of Bonanza fame. The Enquirer has offered $50,000 rewards for the first hard evidence of the existence of UFOs and the first contact to be made by a scientist with another civilization in the universe...
...Synthesizer Concert, Hearst Lounge, B.U. 3:30, Feb. 18. Free...
...result is a kind of modern-day equivalent of Citizen Kane. For Millhouse takes one step further Pauline Kael's argument that Kane's News of the World search for the meaning of "Rosebud" is a conscious parody on the Henry Luce operation that had supplanted Hearst's more idiosyncratic satrapy: in Millhouse, electronic journalism has become the dominant mouthpiece for the promulgation of bogus truth. Sonorous, unseen voices intone the latest espionage finds; hydra-headed clumps of radio and TV microphones become the pulpits from which bulletins and statements issue forth: ubiquitous, invisible cameras whisk us from the streets...
Died. Frank Conniff, 57, former correspondent, columnist and editor for the Hearst newspapers; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Conniff won a wide audience as a combat reporter in Europe during World War II and later in Korea. He became a member of the Hearst "Task Force" and shared a 1955 Pulitzer Prize with Joseph Kingsbury-Smith and William Randolph Hearst Jr. for the trio's exclusive interview with Nikita Khrushchev. Conniff's last major assignment was as editor of the short-lived New York World Journal Tribune...