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...most annoying problem to prospective jurors, the waiting around, has actually been solved already, but the solution is spreading through the system with the speed of a glacier. Says Houston's District Court Judge Shearn Smith, chairman of the Harris County jury committee: "When I became a judge, I went down to the jury assembly room, and I found an unhappy group of citizens. They were not unhappy about being called, but about sitting...
...Moody IV, 30, a grandson; Shearn Moody Jr., 21, a grandson whose father died 18 years ago; Shearn's stepfather, A. J. Newman; and W. L. Moody Jr.'s legal adviser, Attorney Louis J. Dibbrell...
Hearst had greater troubles: for the first time in his life, he was desperately strapped for cash. The old man swallowed his pride, and turned over financial control of his overextended empire to a board of regents headed by Manhattan Lawyer Clarence Shearn and Broker John W. Hanes, former Under Secretary of the Treasury. For Hearst himself, it meant a cut in his reckless spending; for his crazy-quilt domain it meant consolidations, ruthless budget cuts. One night in Manhattan's Ritz Tower, Marion Davies did her bit: she calmly wrote out a check...
Five years ago both Hearst and his empire were withering on the vine. Some drastic pruning had to be done. Hearst's imperious orders to his papers ("The Chief says") were sometimes set aside by General Manager Joseph Vincent Connolly. Trustee Clarence J. Shearn, a dry little Manhattan lawyer with complete control of Hearst finances, restricted the Chief to a paltry $100,000-a-year salary. To save what was left, Shearn sold, consolidated or killed papers, and started selling off big chunks of Hearst's enormous collection of artistic junk (bought for $35 million, worth perhaps...
...Shearn has been moved out, and Connolly is back where he came from-running Hearst's feature and wire services. A new triumvirate, all businessmen, is running the empire: Martin F. Huberth, Richard E. Berlin, John W. Hanes (onetime SECommissioner and Treasury Under Secretary). And once again old Mr. Hearst is the undisputed editor of all his papers and magazines...