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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...publisher. He owned 20 newspapers in 13 of the largest U. S. cities, with Universal Service and INS to flash them worldwide news, King Features Syndicate to dish out comics and boilerplate philosophy, the scandalsheet American Weekly to boost Sunday circulation into the multimillions. He had a string of magazines, a newsreel, a motion-picture company. He had the world's highest paid stable of writers and editors. And he made more money than any other publisher before or since...
...boost from the fair this year. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, once the weak sister of the Coast, has been pulling out of the red under Roosevelt Son-in-Law John Boettiger, will make enough in 1939 to offset 1938's losses. These papers will probably survive as a string long after Hearst is gone...
...wife, married his shrewd secretary, 23 years his junior, shaved his Old Bill mustache, hired a speed typist, slept a maximum five or six hours a night, primed himself for writing on gallons of tea, handfuls of cigarettes. By 1928 he was making $250,000 a year, owned a string of race horses (they lost as consistently as he did at poker), a fleet of shiny big cars for his three children. Any suggestion of economy he took as a slur on his literary abilities...
Since Saturday's game all the first string players have contracted colds, but Major Sargent expects them to be ready for the game on Saturday night. The same lineup that was so successful against Yale will be used. Captain Ben Forbes will be at number one, Gay Dillingham at number two, and Ben Dillingham at three with Cam Burrage as alternate...
Weakened by the loss of two of its first string men, the Crimson poloists, outscored in every period by the Yale team, lost by a final score of 26 to 6 Saturday night...