Word: randolph
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stood on the corner in her neatly pressed blue raincoat. She lounged about, her hands in her pockets, her black purse on her arm. She chatted with San Francisco Examiner Reporter Carol Pogash, who had known her from the food program set up by Randolph Hearst, Pogash's former publisher. "You know, the Secret Service visited my house yesterday," Moore blurted out. "They kept me for an hour and questioned me. You know, they could have kept me for 72 hours if they had wanted to." Pogash thought she knew Moore too well to take her seriously...
...confident that all the aberrations that might have crept into Patty's personality over the months would soon be exorcised. The fact remained, however, that her daughter faced an arm's-length list of serious charges. I'm very apprehensive," said Willie Hearst-and Randolph Hearst seemed as reserved as he was relieved...
...word came at 2:18 p.m. of Patty Hearst's capture, but the San Francisco Examiner (circ. 163,391) managed a brief bulletin and roared back the next afternoon with the kind of volcanic front page that would have tickled Patty's flamboyant grandfather, Examiner Founder William Randolph Hearst. PATTY, ARE YOU COMING HOME? screamed a headline in WAR-DECLARED type. Editor-Publisher John R. ("Reg") Murphy contributed a copyrighted interview with Patty's parents about their first meeting with her since she was kidnaped more than 19 months...
...Randolph A. Hearst, Patty's father and the paper's president, has even made things downright difficult for his reporters. He often held press conferences on the case just after the Examiner's 3 p.m. final deadline, and refused to share with his editors his knowledge of any FBI disclosures. Though KQED-TV Reporter Marilyn Baker talked regularly with him on his private home phone, Examiner staffers on the story were routinely denied access. Says Examiner Reporter Carol Pogash: "There was a gag on us. We were told to cool it, not to pursue our leads...
Trod Softly. The family's caution was understandable. "The S.L.A. was reading the Examiner as the voice of the Hearsts, and Patty's life hung in the balance," says William Randolph Hearst III, 26, her cousin and an Examiner reporter. For that reason, the morning Chronicle, with which the Examiner shares printing facilities, also trod softly at first, sitting for days on an exclusive by Reporter Tim Findley identifying the S.L.A. leaders by name. Findley later quit in disgust. Other energetic Examiner newcomers, hired in a drive to help restore long-lost prestige and sinking circulation (TIME...