Word: randolph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William Randolph Hearst continues to be one of the most fabulous figures in the land. Not the least extraordinary thing about him is the fact that, until two months ago, only one full-length Hearst biography between covers was available. That was John K. Winklers IT-. R. Hearst: An American Phenomenon, published in 1928. By last week, as if in competitive haste to turn literary light on the aging publisher, four biographers in quick succession had added three full-length prose portraits to the Hearstian gallery...
...months ago, first of this new biographical crop to present itself was William Randolph Hearst: American,* by Mrs. Fremont Older, wife of the late great San Francisco editor, who helped her prepare the book, died before it was completed. In 581 pages Mrs. Older pours out her wholehearted admiration for her husband's old boss. In a different vein, fortnight ago appeared Imperial Hearst: A Social Biography,† by Ferdinand Lundberg, onetime Chicago reporter and New York Herald Tribune Wall Street man. A charter member of the American Newspaper Guild, newshawks' union with which Mr. Hearst is perpetually...
Like the famed blind men who examined the vast contours of an elephant with widely variant results, the four biographers bring in antipodal reports on their huge subject. Following William Randolph Hearst from his abbreviated career at Harvard, through his early publishing ventures in California, his entry into New York, his pre-War triumphs and present stormy twilight. Authors Lundberg, Carlson & Bates liberally plaster Publisher Hearst with controversial tar, while Mrs. Older is equally generous in coating her hero with sympathetic whitewash. Some contrasting findings on the character & career of Mr. Hearst...
...Harold Ross by The American Legion Monthly's Editor John T. Winterich, a We Rescue from Oblivion department spotlighting such has-beens as Clara Bow, William H. ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray, the Dolly Sisters. Throughout the book were scattered caricatures of such thoroughly-caricatured celebrities as Ernest Hemingway, William Randolph Hearst. Joe Louis. Impartial observers guessed that the winters in Mt. Morris, Ill. must indeed be tiresome...
...recognition of the super-patriotic service which he has rendered to the cause of Americanism, the League of Yellow Journalists, newly formed organization at Harvard, has unanimously elected William Randolph Hearst as its first honorary president...