The Press: The Quiet Revolution

In the ten months since his father died, New Publisher William Randolph Hearst Jr. has started a quiet revolution in the Hearst publishing empire. "I don't want to rap the Old Man," said one Chicago Herald-American newsman last week, "but this is a young, vigorous organization now. We've changed. Local editors can put out their own papers now without waiting to hear from headquarters."

Oldtimers, who remember the famous wires ("The Chief Suggests") that set Hearstlings to waving the flag or jumping into battle against vivisectionists, women in bars and other pet Hearst peeves, find...

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