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From Park Avenue to Park Lane, the social season is coming to life again, and so is Hearst Society Columnist Suzy Knickerbocker. She has snapped out of her summer doldrums, and once more is writing wittily, tartly and occasionally tenderly about socialites as they close up their chateaux in Biarritz and their villas in Majorca to return to the comforts of London and New York. Suzy knows how to catch them on the run. "Princess Peggy d'Arenberg will be arriving from Paris to dip into the New York social season," she noted. "You all remember Traveling Peggy...
...Francisco Chronicle ("Voice of the West") and the Hearst-owned San Francisco Examiner ("Monarch of the Dailies") have competed as strenuously and exuberantly as any two newspapers in the U.S. In their fight for dominance of the city's morning field, they have pirated star reporters, editors and columnists from each other. They have copied each other's gimmicks, from circus makeup to colored sports pages to wavy lines around pictures. And they often have told each other off editorially. When the zany, fun-filled Chronicle last year championed the topless bathing suit, the Examiner clucked: "The Voice...
...finally cooled off, as both sides agreed to follow the growing trend toward consolidation of newspapers and cutting up of their markets. In a complex deal, the Chronicle will now gain a monopoly in the lucrative morning market. The Examiner will become an evening paper and merge with its Hearst-owned cousin, the small evening News-Call Bulletin. On Sundays, the Chronicle and the Examiner will combine into one paper; the Examiner will provide most of the hard news, while the Chronicle will contribute its features. In addition, the papers will merge their production facilities, at first doing most...
Peace in the Morning. Chief figures in the deal were two dynastic heirs who are close friends but sharp professional rivals: Chronicle Editor Charles de Young Thieriot, 50, and Randolph Apperson Hearst, 50, publisher of both the Examiner and the News-Call Bulletin. For years the possibility of a deal has been discussed fitfully by "Charlie" Thieriot, whose grandfather founded the Chronicle 100 years ago, and "Randy" Hearst, whose father took over the Examiner in 1887 and used it as the foundation for his great empire. An end to the morning rivalry obviously made economic sense. The two Hearst papers...
...rivalries and sentiments died so hard that negotiations often bogged down. The major question facing the negotiators was which paper would get the more profitable morning market. Thieriot demanded that position for his bigger and more successful paper. Randy Hearst, who was joined in the negotiations by his brother William, head of the family's nationwide chain, was reluctant to tamper with the Examiner, which had been their father's favorite paper as well as his first one. In the end, however, sentiment gave way to the survival instinct...