Mr. Hearst's telegraphic code word for Victor Watson was `` fatboy ''.

Lane was still burning because he had narrowly missed election as governor of California in 1902 and laid his defeat to the antagonism of Hearst's San Francisco Examiner.

One of the documents unsealed was the deposition of Hearst's Asher, who says that as of September 2006, his company had recorded cumulative losses of $ 330 million on its investment in the Chronicle, which it acquired in mid-2000.

It was later distributed by the United Feature Syndicate ( while Hearst's King Features distributed The Katzenjammer Kids ).

It was later revealed that Soltysik and Emily Harris were the two who shot Marcus Foster according to Patty Hearst's sworn testimony.

The Yellow Kid was the name of a lead comic strip character that ran from 1895 to 1898 in Joseph Pulitzer's New York World, and later William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal.

A year and a half later Outcault was drawing the Yellow Kid for Hearst's New York Journal in a full-page color Sunday supplement as McFadden's Row of Flats.

In 1896 Outcault was hired away at a much higher salary to William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal American where he drew the Yellow Kid in a new full-page color strip which was significantly violent and even vulgar compared to his first panels for Truth magazine.

In 1933, Warner was able to bring newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan films into the Warner Bros. fold.

Hearst had previously been signed with MGM, but ended the association after a dispute with the company's head producer Irving Thalberg over the treatment of Hearst's long standing mistress, actress Marion Davies, who was struggling for box office success.

William Randolph Hearst | Hearst's treatment was more effective and focused on the enemy who set the bomb — and offered a huge reward to readers

When McKinley was shot on September 6, 1901, critics accused Hearst's Yellow Journalism of driving Leon Czolgosz to the deed.

Lifton went so far as to state after a 15 hour interview with Hearst that she was a " classic case ," about two weeks being needed for almost all persons undergoing that level of mind control to shuck off a good deal of the " gunk " that has filled the mind, as happened in his opinion with Hearst's case.

" If ( she ) had reacted differently, that would have been suspect " and Hearst was " a rare phenomenon ( in a first world nation )... the first and as far as I know the only victim of a political kidnapping in the United States " were direct quotes from Hearst's autobiography attributed to the doctor.

In her trial, which commenced on January 15, 1976 ( and in her dozens of previous interviews by FBI agents Charles Bates and Lawrence Lawler — any reference to which was not allowed by the presiding judge to be included in the trial ), Hearst's attorney F. Lee Bailey claimed that Hearst had been blindfolded, imprisoned in a narrow closet and physically and sexually abused.

* Hearst's 1982 autobiography, Every Secret Thing, was made into the biopic Patty Hearst by Paul Schrader in 1988, with Natasha Richardson portraying Hearst.

* Hearst's voice was used as a caller in the Frasier episode, Frasier Crane's Day Off in 1994.

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.

It was purchased by William Randolph Hearst in the 1920s, dismantled and shipped to the United States, and reassembled after Hearst's death in North Miami Beach in the 1950s.

A final autobiography, titled " The Great West That Was: ' Buffalo Bill's ' Life Story ," was serialized in Hearst's International Magazine from August 1916 to July 1917 and ghostwritten by James J. Montague.

Accompanying a front-page illustration in Hearst's Los Angeles Examiner, Herriman was announced as " the Examiners cartoonist " on 21 August.

Herriman realized his $ 750-per-week salary from Hearst's King Features Syndicate was far more than the revenue the strip could be generating, but Hearst refused Herriman's offer to take a pay cut.

During the early years of World War I, Hearst's INS was barred from using Allied telegraph lines because of reporting of British losses.

The trust dissolves when all family members alive at the time of Hearst's death in August 1951 have died.

In particular, her name is linked with the 1924 scandal aboard Hearst's yacht when one of his guests, film producer Thomas Ince, is rumored to have been shot dead by Hearst in a rage when he caught Davies embracing an unidentified male figure.

Hearst's paramour, Marion Davies, stayed in one of the four tower suites when she visited.

Her formidable power remained unchallenged until February 14, 1937, when Hedda Hopper, a struggling character actress since the days of silent movies, whom Parsons had been kind to and mentioned occasionally in her column, and who had returned the favor by giving Parsons information on others, was hired to be a gossip columnist by one of Hearst's rival newspapers.

La Cava also had the significant advantage over other studios of an unlimited budget: Hearst's business sense completely broke down when it came to his Hearst-Vitagraph News Pictorial and the " living comic strips " they contained.

Following Hearst's death, Tournament was bought by Foxhall P. Keene when the stable was auctioned off at a dispersal sale on May 14, 1891.

William Randolph Hearst's longstanding vendetta with Bell had started when Bell refused to sell a homesite to Hearst for a home to house his silent-film-star mistress, Marion Davies in the Bell's Bel-Air Estates development.

He was still a teenager when he became a staff cartoonist for Hearst's San Francisco Examiner in 1892.

Because INS had been a subsidiary of Hearst's King Features Syndicate and Scripps controlled several other newspaper syndicates, both companies feared possible anti-trust issues.

He had begun his career as a midwestern sportswriter and had moved to New York City to work with William Randolph Hearst's newspapers.

He had numerous commissions from popular magazines in the 1910s and 1920s including Hearst's, Colliers, and Life.

She was retained by William Randolph Hearst, possibly because she had praised Hearst's mistress Marion Davies, and her columns were read by 20 million people in 400 newspapers worldwide.

According to Hearst's mistress and protégé Marion Davies in her posthumously published memoirs The Times We Had, Parsons had encouraged readers to " give this girl a chance " while the majority of critics disparaged Davies ; it was on this basis that Hearst hired Parsons.

In 1937, Hearst's finances had gotten worse and he agreed to lease the Herald and the Times to Patterson with an option to buy.

Besides trouble with advertisers, another major factor that led to the paper's demise was a power struggle between Hearst CEO Richard E. Berlin and two of Hearst's sons, who had trouble carrying on the father's legacy after his 1951 death.

By 1934, he had signed on as a full-time photographer for Hearst's International News Photos ( INP ), covering Capitol Hill and the White House.

It was bought by William Randolph Hearst in 1932, and by 1934 had adopted its present callsign ( named after Hearst's International News Service ).

He adapted the story " Letter to the Editor " by James H. Street which had been first been published in Hearst's International-Cosmopolitan.

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 letter.

One of the documents unsealed was the deposition of Hearst's Asher, who says that as of September 2006, his company had recorded cumulative losses of $ 330 million on its investment in the Chronicle, which it acquired in mid-2000.