The Press: Again, Block to Hearst

When Paul Block bought the Los An-geles Evening Express (reputedly for $2.800.000) ten months ago, the Los An-geles Times set up a sustained cry that William Randolph Hearst was the real purchaser. That big Publisher Hearst and small Publisher Block are warm friends, mutual admirers, is no secret. Publisher Block, more an adman than a newsman, has the sole right to solicit national advertising for Hearst's New York American. Many an observer besides the Los Angeles Times has believed that their business relationship was much closer, took as evidence the fact that they...

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