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Hace 13 horas · In early January 1911, publisher William Randolph Hearst offered $50,000 to the fastest aviator to cross the country coast-to-coast within 30 days. With Hearst’s contest, Armour’s Vin Fiz had ...
Hace 3 días · Newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst was three years from his media empire’s peak. He commanded nearly 30 different papers in cities around the country and enjoyed a...
Hace 4 días · Patty Hearst, American heiress of the William Randolph Hearst media empire who was kidnapped in 1974 by leftist radicals called the Symbionese Liberation Army, whom she under duress joined in robbery and extortion. She was convicted in 1976 and released from prison three years later.
Hace 5 días · The protagonist of Citizen Kane is said to have been based on real-life magnate William Randolph Hearst. Hearst was an American newspaper publisher who built up the nation’s largest newspaper chain and whose methods significantly influenced the practice of American journalism.
Hace 22 horas · Entre ellos están los muy conocidos embustes de los magnates americanos William Randolph Hearst y Josep Pulitzer, para desencadenar en Cuba la guerra de 1898 entre Estados Unidos y España.
Hace 4 días · Orson Welles' masterpiece Citizen Kane remains a landmark in the history of cinema over 80 years later, and its best scenes continue to influence filmmakers today. The quasi-biopic charts the life and death of newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane, a character based partially on real-life American business tycoon William Randolph Hearst.
Hace 3 días · My great-grandfather had clients all over Europe and the U.S., and occasionally did business with celebrities like William Randolph Hearst and Greta Garbo. In the 1920s and ’30s, he traveled...
