The Chief
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21. MHu-MacKay, September 13, 1940, carton 30, WRHp.
22. JFN-AH, May 2l, 194l, box 39, JFNp; Time, November 3, 194l, 82.
23. RB-WRH, July 9, 1940, box 15, BH; MacKay-WRH, December 21, 1940, RB-MacKay, December 21, 23, 1940, Wm. Howard-RB, December 21, 1940, carton 30, WRHp; December 12, 1940, v. 699, 12, Monterey County Records, in author’s possession, courtesy of John Horn, HSSSHM.
24. JFN-AH, January 13, 194l, box 39, JFNp.
25. WRH-Ettelson, January 2, 1940, carton 29a, WRHp.
26. WRH, December 30, 1937, in Selections, 282–83; Evelyn Seeley, “Hearst Fights the Spanish Republic,” New Republic, September 30, 1936, 2l7; LAE, June l, 1937; WRH-EDC, June 2, 1938, box 15, BH.
27. WRH-Winchell, February 6, 1938, incoming box 5, EDCp.
28. NYJA, March 16, 1938, l.
29. WRH-CS, September 24, 1938; WRH-WRH, Jr. and EDC, September 25, 1938, BH.
30. WRH-EDC, October 20, 1938, BH.
31. Saul Friedländer, Nazi Germany and the Jews, vol. 1 (New York: Harper, 1997), 270, 277.
32. WRH, November ll, 1938, in Selections, 3l.
33. LAE, November 12, 16, 1939.
34. WRH-W. A. Curley, July 17, 1938, box 12, BH; WRH-EDC, October 12, 1938, BH; WRH-EDC, December 21,1938; draft of “A Homeland for a Great Jewish Nation,” carton 26, WRHp; excerpts from radio address, May 28, 1939, in Selections, 36–39.
35. JW-Univalser; Woolard-JW, December 18, 1938, BH.
36. WRH-EDC, October 9, 1939, incoming box 5, EDCp.
37. WRH-EDC, July 1, 1940, carton 29, WRHp.
38. WRH-DLG, September 22, 1940; DLG-WRH, September 25, 1940, carton 28, WRHp.
39. NYT, December 29,1940.
40. WRH-RB, December 29, 1940, carton 29, WRHp.
41. Neylan interview, WAS; WRH-MHu, December 5, 1941, carton 34, WRHp; Taylor Coffman, Building for Hearst and Morgan (Summerfield, Calif.: Coastal Heritage Press, 1999), 303–304.
42. WRH-RB, September 6, 1940, carton 29, WRHp.
43. MH-WRH, May 8, 1941, box 7, WRH, Jr.91.
44. MH-WRH, June 9, 1941, box 7, WRH, Jr.91.
45. MH-WRH, February 16, 1942, box 7, WRH, Jr.91.
46. Curley-WRH, March 4, 1940, outgoing box 2, EDCp.
47. WRH, ITN, September 8, October 2,1941; see also, WRH, ITN, September 9, 10, 18, 19, 22, 23, 26, October 6,1941.
48. WRH, ITN, March 11,1940.
49. WRH, ITN, September 5,1940.
50. WRH, ITN, October 31,1940.
51. WRH, ITN, April 17,1941.
52. Akira Iriye, The Globalizing of America (New York: Cambridge U.P., 1993), 189.
53. WRH, ITN, December 8, 194l.
54. Time, March 23, 1942, 40.
55. Davies, 214; Apperson, oh-SSp.
56. Dragon, oh-SS, 4; Davies, 220; Christian, oh-SS.
57. RH, oh-DN; Christian, oh-SS, 30.
58. Davies, 225–27.
59. WRH-JFN, September 26, 1942, box 66, JFNp.
60. 1943–44 Wyntoon guest list, carton 40, WRHp; RH, oh-DN.
61. KVW-EDC, January 1, 1944, box 7, KVWp.
35. Citizen Kane
1. Michael Denning, Cultural Front (New York: Verso, 1996), 275–381; Simon Callow, Orson Welles (New York: Penguin, 1995), 483–84.
2. Callow, 483–85.
3. Denning, 385.
4. Robert L. Carringer, The Making of Citizen Kane (Berkeley: University of California, 1996), 23; Callow, 493–94.
5. Douglas Churchill, “Orson Welles Scares Hollywood,” NYT, January 19, 1941, section 9, 5.
6. Pauline Kael, Citizen Kane Book (New York: Limelight, 1984), 68.
7. Carringer, 2l-23; Kael, 82,
8. “The Shooting Script,” in Kael, 100,114.
9. Orson Welles and Peter Bogdanovich, This Is Orson Welles (New York: HarperCollins, 1992), 49.
10. Newsweek, September 16, 1940,12; Louella Parsons, Tell It to Louella (New York: Putnam’s, 1961), 131.
11. Hedda Hopper, From Under My Hat (Garden City: Doubleday, 1952), 290.
12. Parsons, 13l-32.
13. LP-JW, January 14, 1941, oversized box, WRHp.
14. NYT, January 19, 1941, section 9,5; Callow, 532, citation rearranged; V, February 5, 194l, 18; Kael, 5–6.
15. RB-JW, January 2, 1941, carton 34, WRHp.
16. RB-JW, January 21, 1941, carton 34, WRHp.
17. JW-RB, telephone message, January 25, 1941, carton 34, WRHp.
18. RB-JW, January 28, 1941, carton 34, WRHp.
19. Newsweek, January 20, 1941,62–63; NYT, January 19,5; Time, January 27, 1941,69.
20. V, January 10, 1941,1; RB-JW, January 2, 1941, carton 34, WRHp.
21. V, January 22, 1941, 63; January 29, 1941, 2; February 5, 1941, 4,18; Carringer, 111, 113, 115.
22. NR-LP, January 14, 1941, oversized box, WRHp; Kael, 6; V, February 5,18.
23. V, February 19, 1941, 2, 18; April 16, 3; David Thomson, Rosebud: The Story of Orson Welles (New York: Vintage, 1997), 190–92; NYJA, April 21–May 6,1941; Callow, 555–58.
24. Callow, 532–33; V, April 16, 1941, 62; April 23, 1941,7; Welles and Bogdanovich, 8586.
25. Thomson, 180–81,188; V, April 2, 1941, 2; WRH-John Chapman, April 12, 1941, carton 32, WRHp.
26. Welles and Bogdanovich, 86; Michael Sage, “Hearst Over Hollywood,” New Republic, February 24, 194l, 270; Carringer, 115.
27. Kael, 42–44.
28. V, May 7, 194l, 6.
29. Thomson, 182–84,187.
30. Callow, 575.
31. Marion Davies, The Times We Had (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1975), 264–65.
32. Carringer, 117–2l.
33. John Tebbel, The Life and Good Times of William Randolph Hearst (New York: Dutton, 1952), 287–88.
34. Welles and Bogdanovich, 49.
36. Old Age
1. Edmond D. Coblentz, ed., William Randolph Hearst: A Portrait in His Own Words (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1952), 285–86.
2. WRH, ITN, April 29,1942.
3. Coblentz, 286–77.
4. WRH-Von Ettisch, July 26, 1947, carton 42, WRHp.
5. Marion Davies, The Times We Had (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1975), 214; WRH-EDC, May-September, 1941, BW.
6. Davies, 241.
7. NYJA, April l, 194l, 6.
8. Arthur Holliday-Manuel ûvila Camacho, March 3, 194l; WRH-ûvila Camacho, July 12, 1942, ûvila Camacho, Presidentes.
9. William Randolph Hearst, Jr., with Jack Casserly, The Hearsts: Father and Son (Niwot, Col.: Roberts Rinehart, 1991), 168.
10. Time, May 10, 1943, 50.
11. JW-WRH, May 17,1943; WRH-JW, May 20, 1943, WB.
12. WRH-Howey, March 8,1944; JW-Howey, March 16, 1944, BW; WRH-Connolly, March 10, 1944, BW; WRH-C. S. Ryckman, March 28, 1944, carton 4l, WRHp.
13. David Wyman, The Abandonment of the Jews (New York: Pantheon, 1984), 147–48.
14. W. L. Brennan-E. M. Gundy, May 7,1943; WRH-Connolly, May 8, 1943, carton 39, WRHp.
15. WRH-EC, January 10, 1944, carton 40, WRHp.
16. “Basic Training Manual, Tour 3,” March 11,1997 revision, 40–41, HSSSHM.
17. Davies, 252.
18. Moore, oh-SS, 10
19. WRH-RWA, November 28, 1945, BW.
20. Miller, oh-SS.
21. Photograph archives, HSSSHM.
22. Dragon, oh-SS, 18; communication with John Horn.
23. Davies, 244–45; John Boettiger-WRH, May 13, 1945, carton 41, WRHp; WC-KVW, May 16, 1945, box 8, KVWp.
24. WRH-George Hearst, Jr., April 18, 1944, box 1, WRH, Jr.91.
25. WRH-Phoebe Hearst, April 18, 1944, box 1, WRH, Jr.91.
26. WRH-John Hearst, Jr., June 24, 1944, box 1, WRH, Jr.91.
27. John Hearst, Jr., oh-DN.
28. John Hearst, Jr., “Life with Grandfather,” Reader’s Digest, May 1960,154.
29. WRH, Jr., 189–90; John Hearst, Jr., oh-DN.
30. Fred Lawrence Guiles, Marion Davies (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972), 329–30.
31. Guiles, 199, 241; JFN-AH, March 22, 1937, box 39, JFNp; WC-KVW, December 11, 1946, box 8, KVWp.
32. On will, which was sealed in 1975 for security reasons, after Patty Hearst kidnapping, see WRH, Jr., 254–56; Lindsay Chaney and Michael Cieply, The Hearsts (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1981), 65–69, 87–92, 275–79; NYT, August 14, 1951, 21, 25; August 28, 1951, 25.
33. Dragon, oh-SS.
34. May 1 entry, 1947 Datebook, record group V., Wahlberg Collection, HSSSHM; WRH, Jr., 191; Guiles, 329.
35. May 2l, 22 entries, 1947 datebook, HSSSHM.
36. WRH-EDC, August 22, 1947, box 5, EDCp.
37. WRH-Van Ettisch, October 5,1947; WRH-Walt Disney, October 9, 1947, carton 42, WRHp.
38. Jim Tuck, McCarthyism and New York ’s Hearst Press (Lanham: University Press of America, 1995), 7–14, 45–48; WRH, ITN, April 7, 1942, in Selections, 135–37; Murray Kempton, Part of Our Time (New York: Dell, 1967), 172–75.
39. WRH-editors, July 26, 1947, carton 42, WRHp.
40. WRH-Seymour Berkson, April 29,1947; WRH-Ward Greene, October 20, 1948, carton 42, WRHp.
41. Davies, 173.
42. RB-KVW, April 4, 1947, box 5, KVWp.
43. WRH-Van Ettisch, October 11, 1947, carton 42, WRHp.
44. WRH-Van Ettisch, October 24, 1947, carton 42, WRHp.
45. KVW-RB, October 24, 1947, box 5, KVWp.
46. William J. Mann, Wisecracker (New York: Viking, 1998), 331; Rukeyser, oh-SS, 1718; RB-KVW, March 8, 1948, box 5, KVWp.
47. WRH-RB, May 8, 1948, incoming box 5, EDCp.
48. RB-KVW, December 14, 1948, box 5, KVWp.
49. RB-WRH, Jr., July 6, 1949, carton 49, WRHp.
50. John Tebbel, The Life and Good Times of William Randolph Hearst (New York: Dutton, 1952), 370–72.
51. H. L. Mencken, “editorial,” American Mercury, May 1927, 28–30.
52. A. J. Liebling, in The Press (New York: Pantheon, 1981), 487–501.
53. Mencken, 28–30.
54. WRH, Jr., 233.
55. Davies, 173, 258.
56. Rukeyser, oh-SS, 16.
57. WRH, Jr., 255.
58. Tuck, 32–33,46–49,79–80.
59. Van Ettisch-editors, April 23, 1950, box 23, KVWp.
60. Van Ettisch-editors, May 1, 1950, box 23, KVWp.
61. WRH, Jr., 233–34; Stanley interview, WAS.
62. Anita Loos, Cast of Thousands (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1977), 140; Kiss Hollywood Good-by (New York: Viking, 1974), 145.
63. Guiles, 333; St. Johns interview, WAS.
64. WRH-WRH, Jr., April 18,1951; WRH-Douglas MacArthur, April 16, 1951, carton 32, WRHp.
65. WRH-WRH, Jr., July 7, 15, 1941, box 1, WRH, Jr.91.
66. Woolard interview, WAS.
67. Mrs. John Hearst, Jr., oh-DN.
68. Stanley interview, WAS; Davies, 252; Life, August 27,1951.
69. WRH, Jr., 256.
70. NYT, October 3l, 195l.
71. NYT, November l, 195l; Guiles, 338–39.
72. Life, August 27, 195l.
73. NYT, August 18, 195l, ll.
74. “Song of the River,” in Coblentz, 308–9.
Epilogue
1. William Randolph Hearst, Jr., with Jack Casserly, The Hearsts (Niwot, Col.: Roberts Rineheart, 199l), 5.
2. Fred Lawrence Guiles, Marion Davies (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972), 349–73; NYT, September 23,1961.
3. NYT, August 15, 195l, 2l.
Index
Abbott, Willis, [>]
Abie the Agent (comic), [>]
Acapulco gold mining, [>]
ACLU, [>], [>]
Adams, John, [>]
Addison, Richard A., [>]
Ade, George, [>]
Advertising and publicity: for motion pictures, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]; for newspapers, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Africa, [>], [>]
Albany Times-Union, [>], [>], [>]
Alcoholism and alcohol use, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Allen, George, [>]
Allom, Sir Charles, [>]–[>]
Alpern, Andrew, [>]
Aly Khan, Prince, [>]
Ameche, Don, [>]
American Art Association, [>], [>], [>]
American Correspondent Film Company, [>]
American Humorist, [>]–[>], [>]
American Jewish Committee, [>]–[>]
American Legion, [>], [>], [>], [>]
American Magazine, [>], [>], [>]–[>]
American Newspaper Guild, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
American Newspapers Inc., [>]–[>]
American Protective League, [>]
American Weekly, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Americana (show), [>]
Anger, Kenneth, [>]
Animated films or cartoons, [>], [>], [>]
Annenberg, Max, [>]
Annenberg, Moses, [>]
Anson, Cap, [>]
Anthony, Clara, [>]
Anti-Communism. See Communism and anti-Communist activities
Anti-Semitism, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
Antitrust activities. See Trusts and antitrust activities
Apperson, Anne. See Flint, Anne Apperson
Apperson, Bill, [>]
Apperson, Elbert, [>], [>]
Apperson, Phoebe. See Hearst, Phoebe Apperson
Apperson, Randolph, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Arbuckle, Fatty, [>]
Archbold, John D., [>]–[>]
Architectural Digest, [>]
Arnstein, Nicky, [>]
Art collecting: art dealers used by WRH, [>]; and auctions, [>], [>], [>]–[>]; buyers used by WRH, [>]–[>]; and catalogue shopping, [>]–[>]; from Europe, [>], [>]–[>]; financial worth of WRH’s art, [>], [>]; and gallery shopping, [>]; by Morgan, [>]; by Pulitzer, [>]; by Rockefeller, [>]; for St. Donat’s, [>], [>]; sale of WRH’s art, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]; for San Simeon home, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]; storage and inventory of artworks by WRH, [>]–[>], [>], [>]; after World War I, [>]–[>]; by WRH, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]; WRH’s delays in paying for, [>], [>]–[>]; WRH’s philosophy of, [>], [>], [>]–[>]; for Wyntoon, [>]
Arthur, Chester, [>]
Aslet, Clive, [>]
Associated Press, [>], [>], [>]–[>]
Astor, Vincent, [>], [>], [>], [>]
Atlanta Georgian, [>]
Atwood, Melville, [>]
Austria, [>]–[>], [>]
Austro-Hungarian Empire, [>]
Aviation, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
Avila, Miguel, [>]
Ávila Camacho, President, [>]–[>]
Babicora ranch (Mexico), [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Baker, Newton, [>], [>], [>]
Baldwin, Roger, [>]
Baltimore American, [>]
Baltimore News, [>], [>]
Baltimore Sun, [>]
Bannard, Otto, [>]
Barham, Guy, [>], [>]
Barney Google (comic), [>], [>]
Barretts of Wimpole Street, The (movie), [>]
Barrie, James, [>]
Barry, Philip, [>]–[>]
Barrymore, Ethel, [>]
Barrymore, John, [>]
Barrymore, Lionel, [>]
Barton, Bruce, [>]
Barton, Clara, [>]
Bates, Ernest Sutherland, [>], [>]
Beach, Rex, [>]
Beard, Charles, [>], [>], [>]
Beaumont, Harry, [>]
Beaverbrook, Lord, [>]
Beck, Dave, [>]
Beck, J. M., [>]–[>]
Beethoven, Ludwig van, [>]
Beetson, Fred, [>]–[>]
Behrman, S. N., [>]
Belasco, David, [>]
Belmont, August, [>]–[>], [
>]
Belmont, Mrs. Oliver Hazard Perry, [>], [>]
Belmont House (Long Island), [>]–[>], [>]
Bennack, Frank A., Jr., [>]
Bennett, Arnold, [>]
Bennett, James Gordon, [>], [>], [>]
Bennett, James Gordon, Jr., [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Bent, Silas, [>]
Berenson, Bernard, [>]
Bergman, Ingrid, [>]
Berlin, Irving, [>]
Berlin, Richard: and Citizen Kane, [>]–[>]; and death of WRH, [>]; and employment of Millicent Hearst, [>]; friendship with WRH, [>], [>], [>], [>]; as Hearst Corporation executive, [>], [>]–[>]; and Landon, [>]; and MacArthur as presidential candidate, [>]; as magazine division head, [>], [>]; and sales of WRH’s art, [>]
Bernhardt, Sarah, [>]
Beverly Hills, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Beverly of Graustark (movie), [>], [>]
Bicknell, Henry, [>]–[>]
Bielaski, A. Bruce, [>]
Bierce, Ambrose, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Big House, The (movie), [>] Big Parade, The (movie), [>], [>], [>]
Biograph Company, [>], [>]
Birth of a Nation, The (movie), [>]
Bitzer, Billy, [>]
Black, Hugo, [>]
Black, Winifred, [>], [>]–[>]
Blaine, James G., [>]
Blasco Ibánez, Vicento, [>]
Bloch, Paul, [>], [>]
Block, Rudolph, [>]
Blondie (comic), [>], [>], [>]
Blondie of the Follies (movie), [>]
Bly, Nellie, [>]
Boardman, Eleanor, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Boettiger, John, [>]–[>], [>]
Bogart, Humphrey, [>]
Bogdanovich, Peter, [>], [>]
Bolshevism. See Soviet Union
Bolton, Guy, [>]
Bonaparte, Lucien, [>]
Bond issues, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]
Borah, William, [>], [>], [>], [>]
Borzage, Frank, [>]
Boston newspapers: [>], [>], [>], [>]
Boston Opera Company, [>]
Boutelle, Sara, [>], [>]
Boy Meets Girl (play), [>]
Brady, Alice, [>]
Brent, George, [>]
Briand, Aristide, [>], [>]
Bribery, [>]–[>]
Bridges, Harry, [>], [>], [>]