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...economic grounds, the disappearance of the Examiner and the Mirror could be called death from natural causes. Although the Examiner was one of the shinier links in the dwindling Hearst newspaper chain, it fought a losing battle for survival against the Times. Founded in 1903. when the late William Randolph Hearst still had millions to squander, the Examiner was a well-written, well-edited, brightly made-up paper. Its political reporting was probably the most balanced in California. During the 1940s, the Examiner was ahead of the Times in daily circulation. But the older, more conservative Times fattened...
With Art Carney as Ed Norton, the sewer worker. Joyce Randolph as Norton's wife and Audrey Meadows as Alice Kramden, Gleason carried The Honeymooners out of Cavalcade and into the major leagues on CBS's The Jackie Gleason Show, always running nearly every aspect of the production himself, from set designing to bit-part bookings. He worked so hard that he sometimes had to be given oxygen on the set. In 1954 he broke his leg and ankle during a performance...
...Post-Dispatch, arrived in New York in 1883 did the Sunday paper begin sprouting into the giant it is today. With sensational features, comic strips, four-color illustrations and special-interest supplements, Pulitzer's Sunday World face-lifted Sunday journalism. In this, it had considerable help from William Randolph Hearst, who pitted his New York Journal against the World and trumped Pulitzer's every Sunday trick...
...Oroville, he became a brief celebrity, and soon Anthropologist Thomas T. Waterman of the University of California took him to San Francisco in the "white man's demon," a railroad train, and gave him comfortable quarters in a museum endowed by Phoebe Apperson Hearst, mother of William Randolph Hearst...
...distorting the shape of U.S. journalism, the late William Randolph Hearst wielded no instrument with more effect than the American Weekly, his peculiar contribution to Sabbath reading. A supplement parasitically attached to Hearst's Sunday papers, and purveying what detractors called "the three Cs" (crime, concupiscence and corruption), the Weekly scored a conspicuous financial success in a newspaper barony frequently awash in red ink. Right up to the Chief's death in 1951, the Weekly, with nearly 10 million circulation, made money. But last week, the businessmen who now govern the remnants of Hearst's empire were...