Word: randolphs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Executors of the estate of William Randolph Hearst filed an incomplete appraisal of the size of the Hearst empire. Value: $56 million, and probably more when all the figures are in. The latest Hearst holding disclosed: $40 million in nonvoting Hearst Corp. common stock...
While he was on the 'Poon staff, Wil- liam Randolph Hearst '88 became business manager. According to Santayana, many students resented Hearst's habit of smoking long cigars while strolling through the Yard; they considered it a tasteless exhibition and a showing off of his wealth. Hearst did, however, provide the Lampoon with a luxurious new building, and Santayana notes that "he could sell...
Back in the fabulous '20s, when William Randolph Hearst was collecting art, he casually bought a whole Spanish monastery one day. The 811-year-old building was dismantled and each statue and block of stone duly numbered. Then they were packed into 10,742 crates (made in a specially built sawmill) and sent 21 miles (on a specially built railroad) to a seaport, where freighters carried them to New York. Somehow Hearst never got around to playing with his new $500,000 building blocks. They sat in a Bronx warehouse until after his death last year, then were sold...
...five months. Then he turned the cars into ready cash to invest in any likely venture (except the liquor and cigarette businesses and outright gambling; these were taboo, he said, under the Baptist principles he had been converted to while in flight training at Texas' Randolph Field in 1944). "I want to help humanity," he said. "Brazil is a country with very little money. With $500 you can't do much. But with $5,000 you can do a lot, and with $50,000 almost anything...
MANY people have tried to explain the extraordinary success of Louella Parsons. The story has gone the rounds for years that, as she puts it in her autobiography, she was "supposed to know 'something' "-presumably about her boss, William Randolph Hearst, whom she steadfastly revered through the 29 years she worked for him. Careful research has still to uncover any evidence to support this legend...