Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, May 15, 1993 TAG: 9305150154
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-2 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: NEW YORK LENGTH: Medium
He died in New York, said George Reine, assistant city editor at the San Francisco Examiner, flagship newspaper of the Hearst chain.
Hearst, the second of five sons born to William Randolph and Millicent Willson Hearst, shared the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting in 1956.
For nearly 40 years he wrote a Sunday editorial column called "Editor's Report." He lobbied for a strong defense and pushed for a modern highway system.
He enjoyed friendships with Hollywood stars like John Wayne and Bing Crosby and the camaraderie of New York nightclub life. With Howard Hughes he shared a passion for airplanes and fast cars.
But he kept a lower public profile in the years following the 1974 kidnapping of his niece, Patricia Hearst, who was abducted by a band of radicals in California and wound up taking part in, and standing trial for, a bank robbery.
Hearst sat on the board of trustees of the privately held Hearst Corp. but neither he nor his brothers ever inherited the leadership mantle of their legendary father. That role went to outsiders.
"The old man was a flamboyant editor and publisher. He lived for headlines and national press battles," Hearst wrote of the man whose life served as the model for Orson Welles' classic movie "Citizen Kane." "I lived in my father's shadow all my life."
Editorially, Hearst continued his father's crusade against Communism and supported Sen. Joseph McCarthy's red-baiting tactics even when he had been largely discredited and censured.
by CNB