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...This piece," wrote William Randolph Hearst Jr. in the chatty style of his "Editor's Report," "will be read by you while your intrepid correspondent is once again flying over the Atlantic . . . The last three weeks have been, I guess, about the busiest the Hearst Task Force has ever put in." The Taskmaster of journalism's most extraordinary team was homeward bound, proudly clutching fresh trophies from his continuing international big-name hunt...
...Buffalo Bill -a fancy so wild and appropriate that it has never been disproved. Fact is that he learned telegraphy as a young man in Arizona, tried working as a country newspaper correspondent, then moved to California, where his natural flamboyance caught the eye of another flamboyant journalist, William Randolph Hearst. Eventually, the two men formed a professional alliance so strong that Von Wiegand stories bore a "must-run" mandate second only to Hearst's "The Chief says...
Faint hope stirred in some corners: the Nashville Tennessean mused that "some of the fog can be cleared away as the heads of two friendly and allied states talk things over in an atmosphere of reason." But in Europe there were no illusions at all. William Randolph Hearst Jr., setting out on one of his journalistic junkets, sensed a "European atmosphere of doubt about the wisdom of the trip and misgivings about its outcome." And the French press was plainly not enthusiastic. "It would be vain to hope." editorialized Paris' Le Monde, "that the discussion magically ends the differences...
...Sutton Place, his million-dollar Tudor mansion outside London. "They'll come as guests and make long-distance calls all over the world. Even a call to London costs one and three [18?]." Pounding a tight fist on the table, he recalled the attitude of the late William Randolph Hearst. "He didn't like people to use his telephone without telling him about it. Anyone who did that, whether staff or guest, found his luggage packed." That was going a little far, thought Getty, even while reiterating that "there should be discipline in money matters...
...gesture of despair, to the exact technique he employed in U.S.A. Slices of fictional personal histories are wedged between slabs of headlines and impressionistic biographic profiles of real-life movers and shapers. Instead of U.S.A.'s sardonic portraits of such tycoons as Carnegie, Henry Ford and William Randolph Hearst, there are acid sketches of Dave Beck, Jimmy Hoffa and Harry Bridges. Dos Passos' own fictional characters are manikins, but they acquire a certain animation and excitement by being placed on the revolving stage of 20th century social and intellectual history...