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EMILY BRENT RANDOLPH...
...year-comparable to Henry Ford quitting his motor company and setting up shop in competition across the street. It was a move involving three of the biggest U.S. press lords: the Chicago Tribune's Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick (who lost Caniff), and Marshall Field and William Randolph Hearst, who gained him. For Caniff himself, it meant a guarantee of $520,000 for his next five years' work, and a stiff challenge-to outdo the best of his past...
...issue of TIME there was an article about the [new] Hearst comic strip. [William Randolph Hearst] speaks of the boy Dick being the son of the keeper of the Liberty Statue. It is not the Liberty Statue; it is the Statue of Liberty. He is not the keeper; he is superintendent. My name is not Dick...
...Lord Randolph Churchill, as Secretary of State for India in 1885, ordered a British expeditionary force to depose Burma's mad King Theebaw and formally join the country, which had been under British influence for 60 years, to the Empire...
...readers, spend more time over their comic strips than over their editorial pages. The late Captain Joseph M. Patterson guided his comics (Orphan Annie, Dick Tracy, Terry, etc.) as cunningly as his anti-Roosevelt campaigns, built a monster circulation (now 2,400.000) for his New York Daily News. William Randolph Hearst was one of the daddies of comics (his early Yellow Kid strip led to the phrase "yellow journalism"). Last week the trade paper Editor & Publisher, reporting the launching of Hearst's newest strip, Dick's Adventures in Dreamland, dipped into the year-long correspondence over it that...