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1 day ago · Born in Lawrence, Mass., and growing up in Worcester, Mass., Thayer had helped run the Harvard Lampoon, a humor magazine, alongside William Randolph Hearst. When Hearst’s father George bought ...
5 days ago · For example, George Hearst, the father of newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst, really did arrive in 1877 and proceeded to buy up mining claims. Most notably, he purchased the Homestake Mine, which would become one of the richest gold finds in American history.
5 days ago · In 1926, William Randolph Hearst commissioned Joseph Urban, one of the most important theater designers of the time, to create a building to house his magazine empire.
Jun 28, 2024 · We dissect the before and after reel of special effects in the Great Gatsby to show what's historically accurate and not in the recent film.
2 days ago · Among the private collectors discussed in the book are the lawyer John Quinn, the banker Otto H. Khan and his wife, Adelaide Wolff Kahn, the businessman Raymond Pitcairn, the newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst and many others.
3 days ago · My great-grandfather mentioned the theft in a letter to his client, William Randolph Hearst: “Our [Paris] place….has been Aryanized and a lot of our valuable antiques have been taken over by ...
4 days ago · (San Diego Air and Space Museum Archives) Lockheed Vega 1 NX913 was sold to George Randolph Hearst to enter in the Dole Derby California-to-Hawaii Air Race, and named “Golden Eagle.” (JMF Haase Collection, SDASM Archives) Lockheed Vega s/n 1, NX913.
