A new name appeared last week on the city staff schedule of William Randolph Hearst's San Francisco Examiner. It was a new hireling, a cub reporter. His hours: 10 a. m. to 6:30 p. m., Monday through Friday. First day of the schedule, the cub failed to show up for work. Second day, he went to lunch with the Examiner's business manager, did not return. No assistant city editor rebuked him. The cub's name: Randolph Apperson Hearst.
Tall, handsome, athletic, Randolph is one of the 19-year-old Hearst twins, youngest sons of the publisher. Graduated from Lawrenceville School in New Jersey last year, he followed in his father's footsteps to Harvard. His father was rusticated out of Harvard for scholastic deficiency 50 years ago. Son Randolph was ousted at midyear with "E" grades in four subjects. Also like his father Randolph returned to San Francisco. Examiner oldsters were forewarned of his arrival, ordered to treat him like any other cub reporter except that he was not to be fired, not to be called bad names.