Word: kern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...echelon of the Hearst empire there was a major shifting of bosses last week. After 15 years as general manager of the Hearst papers, J. D. Gorta-towsky, 69, gave up the job (though he will remain as titular Hearst chairman). To Harold G. Kern, 56, a Hearstling for 30 years, went the title of general manager. To 47-year-old William Randolph Hearst Jr., just back from a tour of Russia (TIME, Feb. 21), went a title that has been unused since his father's death in 1951: editor in chief...
...take some of the load off "Gorty" Gortatowsky, who rose to the top through editorial channels, Hearst directors had chosen a man from the business side. Boston-born Harold Kern joined the advertising department of Hearst's Boston American in the '20s. He worked for Hearst's national advertising office for several years, in 1938 was made publisher of Hearst's three Boston papers (Record, American and Sunday Advertiser). All three were limping along, with the American in the worst shape financially. Kern changed it to match the tabloid format of the Record, started a combination...
When Donald Bartlett, an oil-company worker, and six of his friends in Bakersfield, Calif. decided to hunt for uranium, they did it the easy way. They bought a $495 scintillator and drove along the country roads in Kern County around Bakersfield. One day last December, as they drove along the Walker Pass road through the southern Sierra Mountains, the needle of the scintillator began to "go crazy." Bartlett and his friends began to "go scrambled out, soon found the reason: a big granite outcropping studded with pockets of radioactive ore (autunite). When they tunneled into the mountainside, the Sunday...
Last week the treasure hunt in oil-and-cotton-rich Kern County had reached feverish proportions, as shoe clerks, tin smiths, bankers, doctors, and Hollywood bit-players filed some 200 claims in the county recorder's office. Thousands more rode into the hills in everything from jeeps to Cadillacs; in their spare time, even housewives hopped into the family car and cruised hopefully about the area...
...doctors' meeting in Louisville last week, Dr. Richard A. Kern of Philadelphia's Temple University reported the latest findings on suicide. Key facts...