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37 unusual facts about William Randolph Hearst


Abbey of New Clairvaux

William Randolph Hearst purchased and dismantled the chapter house of the old Spanish monastery in 1931 and had the stones shipped to California, intending to include them in Wyntoon, a grand home he was building in remote Northern California.

Ad Carter

In 1922, Carter was hired by William Randolph Hearst to create similar kid characters for a new strip, Just Kids.

Bradenstoke

Having fallen into disrepair after the Dissolution of the monasteries, it was dismantled in 1930 to provide parts of a renovation of St Donat's Castle, Wales, which had been bought by William Randolph Hearst.

Bradenstoke Priory

It is noted today for its structures having been used by William Randolph Hearst for the renovation of St Donat's Castle, near Llantwit Major, Wales, in the 1930s.

Burt Gillett

His animation career started around 1916 when he was employed by the International Film Service, an early animation studio under the ownership of William Randolph Hearst and the supervision of Gregory La Cava.

Cerro de Pasco

Gray Brechin notes that the mines of Cerro de Pasco were a chief source of wealth for William Randolph Hearst and his family.

Charles Henry Tenney

Judge Tenney's daughter Patricia Lusk Tenney married John Randolph Hearst, Jr., the grandson of newspaper man and publisher William Randolph Hearst.

Chester Gould

He was hired by William Randolph Hearst's Chicago Evening American, where he produced his first comic strips, Fillum Fables (1924) and The Radio Catts.

Chris-Craft Boats

Chris-Craft sold high end powerboats to wealthy patrons such as Henry Ford and William Randolph Hearst.

David Nasaw

Following the success of Nasaw's 2000 biography of William Randolph Hearst, Senator Ted Kennedy approached Nasaw to write a biography of his father, Kennedy patriarch Joseph P. Kennedy.

Derrick Dodd

By 1892, Dodd had become the business manager for William Randolph Hearst's paper the San Francisco Examiner and a great admirer of the leading newspaper mogul.

Douglas Tottle

Douglas Tottle exposes the fraudulent charge of famine-genocide made against the USSR . . . Skillfully Tottle traces the labyrinthine history of the "evidence" — documentary and photographic — on its convoluted passage from nazi publications to the Hearst press to the misfounded "scholarship" of such present-day Kremlinologists as Robert Conquest.

Ed Wheelan

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

Eyrecourt Castle

By the 1920s the house was falling into decay and around 1950 the staircase was purchased by William Randolph Hearst.

George Randolph Hearst

(April 23, 1904 – January 26, 1972) was the eldest son of William Randolph Hearst.

George Randolph Hearst, Jr.

Non-family executives are a majority on the trust that controls the corporation, and this trust will not dissolve until all grandchildren alive at the death of William Randolph Hearst have died.

Gimbels

The New York store got considerable attention as the site of the 1939-40 sale of art and antiquities from the William Randolph Hearst collection.

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.

Herman Oliphant

While at the Treasury Department, he was lobbied by William Randolph Hearst to make cannabis illegal.

Jimmy Hatlo

The two papers later merged as the San Francisco Call-Bulletin, part of William Randolph Hearst's publishing empire.

John Randolph Hearst

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

Julanne Johnston

Johnston is known for being on William Randolph Hearst's yacht the Oneida during the weekend in November 1924 when film director and producer Thomas Ince later died of heart failure.

Lilienthal Normalsegelapparat

Nine examples are known to have been sold, the buyers including Nikolai Zhukovsky and William Randolph Hearst.

Lindsay Chaney

He is the co-author, with Michael Cieply of a book about the heirs of William Randolph Hearst entitled The Hearsts: Family and Empire, published by Simon & Schuster.

Maya codices

Two elaborate early 20th-century forged codices were in the collection of William Randolph Hearst.

Morab

Publisher William Randolph Hearst had an extensive Arabian breeding program and a short-lived, but important, Morgan program, which included a program of breeding Morabs.

Newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst was an avid Morab breeder, and is credited with the creation of the breed name by coining the term, "Morab", as a combination of the names of the parent breeds.

Norland, West Yorkshire

The American newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst bought the stones in 1922 with the intention of re-building the hall in the USA.

Patricia Lake

She was long suspected of being the illegitimate daughter of actress Marion Davies and publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst, which she herself claimed just before she died.

Peter Rinearson

During his time in college, Rinearson was managing editor of the University of Washington Daily, editor of the Sammamish Valley News (the now-defunct weekly newspaper in Redmond, Washington), and winner of the National Championship of the William Randolph Hearst Journalism Awards program.

San Simeon, California

A key feature of the area is Hearst Castle, a hilltop mansion built by William Randolph Hearst in the early 20th century that is now a tourist attraction.

Testem Benevolentiae Nostrae

Further the Spanish-American War, which many Catholics opposed, was often blamed on William Randolph Hearst's newspapers and had occurred a year before the encyclical.

The Five O'Clock Girl

In 1928, Marion Davies and Joel McCrea starred in a screen adaptation directed by Robert Z. Leonard for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, but it never was released, possibly because William Randolph Hearst objected to his mistress Davies portraying a common shopgirl in her first sound film.

Virginia Aviation Museum

Vultee V-1AD Special, NC16099, c/n 25, built 1936, "Lady Peace II" - once owned by publisher William Randolph Hearst, only one known in existence.

Wallace Fard Muhammad

Elijah Muhammad also challenged the Hearst press, which had publicized the story, and offered US$100,000 to anyone who could prove W. F. Muhammad was an alias of Wallace Dodd Ford.

William Randolph Hearst, Jr.

Michael Cieply and Lindsay Chaney; The Hearsts: family and empire: the later years.

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.


1956 Pulitzer Prize

William Randolph Hearst, Jr., J. Kingsbury-Smith and Frank Conniff of International News Service, for a series of exclusive interviews with the leaders of the Soviet Union.

Annenberg Community Beach House

The Annenberg Community Beach House at Santa Monica State Beach is a public beach facility built on the location of a now-demolished 110-room mansion that was built for Marion Davies by William Randolph Hearst.

Evangelina Cosio y Cisneros

Her imprisonment as a rebel and escape from a Spanish jail in Cuba, with the assistance of a reporter from William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal, created wide interest in the United States press, as well as accusations of fraud and bribery.

Fremont Older

In his later years at the Bulletin, Older was offended by the owner's rewriting of his editorials and refusal to commit to a lifelong appointment, so after twenty-three years of service, he resigned in 1918 and went to William Randolph Hearst's paper, the San Francisco Call.

H. Henry Powers

The bill inspired a campaign of opposition led by publisher William Randolph Hearst and his employee, Ambrose Bierce.

HMS Evadne

The Evadne (now Marala) was the setting of the 2001 film The Cat's Meow, in which she represented William Randolph Hearst's yacht, the Oneida.

Joseph Medill Patterson Albright

Albright is the scion of a media empire, the grandson and namesake of Joseph Medill Patterson, founder of the New York Daily News who had rivaled William Randolph Hearst in the 1930s.

Lombardy Hotel

Built in the 1920s by William Randolph Hearst for his mistress, silent film star Marion Davies, The Lombardy has been the New York residence of film stars like Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.

Robert E. Kennedy Library

Major subject areas in the collections include: book arts, environmental history, ethnic studies, fine printing, graphic arts, Julia Morgan's and John Steinbeck's first editions, landscape architecture in California, Robinson Jeffers' first editions, San Luis Obispo regional history, social history, William Randolph Hearst, and San Simeon.

Show People

Though one of the great comic talents of her day, featured in many of the decade's successful comedies, such as Tillie the Toiler (1927), she too often appeared in extravagant, costly period romance films at the behest of her newspaper tycoon lover William Randolph Hearst, who supposedly enjoyed seeing his mistress in fancy costume.