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...kinds of sensations that were the bread and butter of daily newspapers. Even now, while there are thousands of scandalous skeletons for the dailies to pick out of political closets, the bang-bang cops-and-robbers stuff is still given screaming banner-headline play. The Patricia Hearst affair and the "siege" of Washington's U.S. District Courthouse--where two convicts took eight people hostage in an escape attempt last Thursday--are just the sort of thing publishers like to have around for their front pages...
...police and six members of the Symbionese Liberation Army. The first was a three-page statement from the "Weather Underground." The group claimed credit for bombing an office of the state attorney general as a token of support for the S.L.A. Then came a tape-recorded message from Patricia Hearst and two other S.L.A. survivors (TIME, June...
Jann Wenner, 28, is known around the San Francisco offices of the biweekly Rolling Stone as "Citizen Wenner." The more or less jocular analogy to William Randolph Hearst is apt: Wenner is a brilliant, brash autocrat with an eye for lucrative markets and talented writers. Perceiving a vast audience for a rock-music magazine, he borrowed $7,500, produced his first issue in 1967. Since then, the staff has grown from six to 90, circulation has jumped to 415,000, and Stone's irreverent, meandering and sometimes erratic reportage has been extended to politics and society in general...
...friendly personal terms with Nixon for 25 years; last November the News said Nixon could best serve the nation by resigning. Other papers and editors previously more or less partial to the President?including the Denver Post, Chicago Tribune, Kansas City Times, Omaha World-Herald and William Randolph Hearst Jr.? have also come out for resignation or impeachment...
...three weeks after her six comrades in the Symbionese Liberation Army died in a Shootout with police, Patricia ("Tania") Hearst dropped out of sight. Last week she and Fellow Survivors William and Emily Harris surfaced in a 33-minute tape-recorded message clandestinely delivered to radio station KPFK in Los Angeles. In it the newspaper heiress heaped scorn on her parents, vowed to fight on against "the pigs," and revealed that she had taken an S.L. A. member as her lover...