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...startled dowager. And she was not alone. Before the curtain was down on the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Bizet's passionate masterpiece last week, there was many another exclamation; some were snorts from traditionalists, but most of them were something like "Wow!" The New York Journal-American's headline summed it up: JUST SHORT OF SENSATIONAL...
...spots their father had held. Son William Randolph Hearst Jr., 43, was elected by its directors to be president of Hearst Consolidated Publications, which directly owns & operates some Hearst papers, also controls Hearst Publishing Co., which owns most of the rest. Bill Jr., already publisher of the New York Journal-American and the American Weekly, was also chosen chairman of the vital editorial-policy-setting board. Son Randolph Apperson Hearst, 35, publisher of the San Francisco Call-Bulletin, was named president of the lesser Hearst Publishing Co. (As president of the Hearst Corp., the highest-level holding company, Dick Berlin...
...working as a "flyboy" in the New York Mirror pressroom, after two years at University of California left school to work as a police-station cub for the old New York American. At 23, he was boosted up to be president, and stayed on the job with the merged Journal-American...
...Europe as a zealous if undistinguished correspondent. The Chief himself edited his copy, wired him to stop writing about bombing raids until he flew in one (Bill did). At war's end, pleased old W.R. made him publisher of the prized American Weekly on top of his Journal-American job, and Bill was clearly marked as the empire's crown prince. Twice divorced, he was married three years ago to pretty Austine ("Bootsie") Cassini, society gossipist for Washington's McCormick-owned Times-Herald (her column is now Hearst-syndicated) and ex-wife of the Journal-American...
...present, only one of the quintet of Hearst sons is regarded as likely to be entrusted with top management. He is the ablest and most responsible of the lot: balding William Randolph Hearst Jr., 43, now publisher of the Journal-American and the American Weekly...