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unusual facts about Hearst


Hearst, Ontario

Currently the major employers include a Tembec hard and soft wood facility as well as a plywood mill operated by Columbia Forest Products.


American Boy Scouts

The national committee was also the officers of the Atlantic Department with Hearst as president, Jefferson M. Levy first vice president, Charles P. Devare second vice president, James R. O'Beirne treasurer and James F McGrath secretary.

Carl Thomas Anderson

Hearst was traveling in Germany in 1934 when he saw Henry in the Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung.

Characters in the Novels of the Company

Hearst's famous residence Hearst Castle, in San Simeon, California, is relatively close (50 miles) from Kage Baker's longtime home, Pismo Beach, California.

Charles M. Palmer

He would be business manager of the company from 1895 to 1899 and would be president of the Boston Record for Hearst for several years.

Cosmopolitan Productions

These included Cosmopolitan magazine (from which Hearst took the film company's name) as well as Harpers Bazaar and Good Housekeeping.

Cuban War of Independence

Hearst, when informed by Frederic Remington, whom he had hired to furnish illustrations for his newspaper, that conditions in Cuba were not bad enough to warrant hostilities, allegedly replied, “You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war”.

Dan Malone

Malone has taught journalism classes at Tarleton State University and at the University of North Texas as an adjunct professor, while also serving as a Hearst Visiting Professional-in-Residence for the UT-Austin journalism program and Jurist for the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Writers Conference of the Southwest (associated with the Mayborn School of Journalism at UNT).

Ed Wheelan

For William Randolph Hearst, he created the strip Midget Movies in 1918, but he left in 1920 after a dispute with Hearst.

Harry M. Rosenfeld

Rosenfeld writes a weekly column for that paper which is published by other papers in the Hearst chain.

Hearst Corporation

On November 8, 1990 Hearst Corporation acquired the remaining 20% stake of ESPN Inc. from RJR Nabisco for a price estimated between $165 million and $175 million.

Hearst papyrus

It was later named after Phoebe Hearst (the mother of William Randolph Hearst, the newspaper magnate) who funded much of that expedition carried out by the University of California.

J. B. Matthews

In 1964, with his health in decline, Matthews left the employ of the Hearst organization and sold a substantial part of his files to the Church League of America based in Wheaton, Illinois, before passing to Jerry Falwell's Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia.

Jan Weenix

After Hearst went bankrupt, the paintings were dispersed; one is in the National Galleries of Scotland in Edinburgh, two are in Hotel Carlyle in New York, one has been in the Allen Memorial Art Museum since 1953 and one is lost.

Jazz journalism

In 1920, William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer extended yellow journalism into tabloid journalism with an emphasis on sex, violence, murder, and celebrity affairs.

Jean Chatzky

She moved to the Dow Jones/Hearst start-up SmartMoney in 1992, rising from staff writer to senior editor.

John Hays Hammond

Over 10,000 people wrote tributes to Hammond, including: Hearst whose father gave him his first job, Woolf Barnato whose father (Barney Barnato) took him to South Africa, Sir Lionel Phillips who was condemned to death with him, the Guggenheims who employed him at a fabulous salary, former President Taft who offered him an ambassador position, and President Calvin Coolidge who consulted with him on the coal situation.

John Randolph Hearst

John Randolph Hearst (1909–1958) was an American business executive and the third son of William Randolph Hearst.

KCCI

While the Register went to Gannett and the Register and Tribune Syndicate (best known as syndicators of The Family Circus) went to Hearst as a King Features division, KCCI and WESH went to H&C Communications.

KOAT-TV

KOAT is also one of six ABC affiliates and one of three Hearst-owned ABC stations to have an hour-long 10 p.m. newscast, along with KITV in Honolulu and WISN in Milwaukee; as well as KRGV in Weslaco, Texas, KSTP in Saint Paul, Minnesota, KIFI in Idaho Falls, Idaho and WEAR in Pensacola, Florida.

Leo Jansen

Many of the rich and famous (such as Raquel Welch, Willian Holden, Donald Sutherland, Stephanie Powers, and the LA Times Hearst family. ) sought out Jansen for his portraiture skills, Jansen's sitting fee in the 1960 was US$20,000.

Mandriva Linux

Hearst contended that MandrakeSoft infringed upon King Features' trademarked character Mandrake the Magician.

MediaNews Group

In November 2006, Reilly's attorney presented to U.S. District Judge Susan Illston a letter from Hearst senior vice president James Asher to MediaNews President Jody Lodovic that said the two companies agreed to "offer national advertising and internet advertising sales for their San Francisco Bay Area newspapers on a joint basis, and to consolidate the San Francisco Bay Area distribution networks of such newspapers ...."

Mr. Jack

Apparently at Hearst's request, he shifted his characters from bears to tigers, the emblem of Tammany Hall, creating The Little Tigers.

Municipal Ownership League

Hearst, a lifelong Democrat, formed the party chiefly as a means of toppling the Tammany Hall political machine, a faction of the Democratic Party which then dominated city politics, and specifically to defeat Tammany crony George B. McClellan, Jr., who was then running for a second term as Mayor of New York City.

Neptune Pool

The pool's main axis centerpiece and north terminus is the façade of an actual Ancient Roman temple that William Randolph Hearst had purchased in Europe and imported to San Simeon.

Nickolas Davatzes

In 1983 he was recruited to run a merger between two failed cable networks: the Entertainment Network, owned by RCA and the Rockefeller family and the ARTS Network, owned by Hearst and ABC.

NLRB v. Hearst Publications

Hearst Publications (Hearst), the publishers of four daily Los Angeles newspapers, refused to bargain collectively with their newsboys.

Patricia Shaw

Patty Hearst (born 1954), celebrity kidnap victim now known as Patricia Hearst Shaw

People's capitalism

"Our houses are all on one level, like our class structure," proclaimed a 1953 issue of the Hearst magazine House Beautiful.

R. N. Baskin

In route for California, Baskin visited the Little Cottonwood mining district with Thomas Hearst and saw possibilities in the minerals of Utah Territory and decided to stay.

Raoul Barré

Another man who had stood up to Hearst was Bud Fisher, who had the courts uphold his copyright ownership to his Mutt and Jeff comic strip, which had been printed by Hearst newspapers for nine years.

Rick Hearst

In 2005 Hearst filmed the lead role in Carpool Guy, directed by Corbin Bernsen.

San Simeon, California

In 1953, the Hearst Corporation donated the William Randolph Hearst Memorial Beach, including the old Hearst Pier, to San Luis Obispo County.

Show People

For example: Janice Meredith (1924), Yolanda (1924), Bride's Play (1922) and the infamously expensive When Knighthood Was in Flower (1922), all financially backed by Hearst's Hollywood film company, Cosmopolitan Productions.

Sunday comics

In America, the popularity of comic strips sprang from the newspaper war between Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer.

The Battle Over Citizen Kane

During this period, however, William Randolph Hearst was actually millions of dollars in debt mainly owing to his excessive spending, particularly on his continuing construction of his already sprawling mansion near San Simeon, California which was located on a property approximately half the size of the state of Rhode Island.

The Problem of the Covered Bridge

He even notices that Hank is reading copies of Hearst's International magazine that include the two-part Sherlock Holmes story, The Problem of Thor Bridge.

The Sons of Heaven

Strangely, William Randolph Hearst is a necessary part of this plan, even if Hearst would like to be the hero Roland.

University of California, Berkeley Libraries

The piece was originally a gift to the university in 1882 by Mrs. Mark Hopkins but was soon forgotten after it was stored in the Hearst Women's Gymnasium.

Walter Howey

Walter Crawford Howey (born Fort Dodge, Iowa, January 16, 1882; died Boston, March 21, 1954, age 72) was a Hearst newspaper editor and the model for Walter Burns, the scheming, ruthless managing editor in Hecht and MacArthur's play The Front Page.

William N. Schoenfeld

P. J. Bersh, A. Charles Catania, W. W. Cumming, James A. Dinsmoor, Charles Ferster, Peter Harzem, Eliot S. Hearst, Francis Mechner, John Anthony Nevin, Ovide F. Pomerleau, Emilio Ribes, Murray Sidman.

William Randolph Hearst II

New York Times; October 23, 2005; Heather Disbrow Carlton, 33, the daughter of Christina and Merritt Carlton of Fernandina Beach, FL, was married yesterday at the Hearst Ranch in San Simeon, California, to Jason Gooch Hearst, the son of Jennifer Rowe of Hope, Maine, and William Randolph Hearst II of San Luis Obispo, California.

William Randolph Hearst, Jr.

He was instrumental in restoring some measure of family control to the Hearst Corporation, which under his father's will is (and will continue to be while any grandchild alive at William Randolph Hearst Sr.'s death in 1951 is still living) controlled by a board of thirteen trustees, five from the Hearst family and eight Hearst executives.

Wisconsin Lottery

The Lottery's nightly drawings, starting in 1991 with the introduction of Supercash! (a $250,000 daily six-number game when it began) also took place at WISN-TV, and were usually drawn by its employees not part of the station's news department, or by employees of WISN Radio and WLTQ, which were owned by Hearst at the time and shared the WISN studios.


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