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...Bishop of California, intoned the funeral service, without sermon or eulogy. At that moment, in the grimy office of the Examiner, a few blocks away, and in Hearst-papers across the land, typewriters and linotypes stilled their clatter, and for a few minutes the plants lay in silence. William Randolph Hearst had stopped the presses for the last time...
...weeds, William Randolph Hearst's widow, almost a stranger to him for his last 29 years, walked slowly around the casket. As the family and friends departed, the curious lingered, plucked souvenirs from the hundreds of wreaths...
...things was quickly manifested in other ways. Within 20 minutes of The Chief's death, Richard E. Berlin, top operating boss of the Hearst chain, swept into the Davies home, told the guards and nurses: "You are all working for me now." Berlin, now second only to William Randolph Hearst Jr. in power, was likely to take a bigger share of command all down the empire's line. Both Hearst and Berlin well knew the empire was ailing; in 1951's first six months, even the profits of its major newspaper operating company had shown a disturbing...
...WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST...
...long last, contentious, vigorous William Randolph Hearst found tranquillity...