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Died. Clarence Richard Lindner, 62, publisher of the San Francisco Examiner and vice president-director of Hearst Consolidated Publications; of a heart attack; in San Francisco (see PRESS...
...plump, scholarly man with a connoisseur's taste for fine wines and first editions, Lindner's erudition awed his staff. He was an authority on the theater, a patron of the opera and symphony, a collector of Japanese prints and a dryly witty talker on such topics as 19th century literature. Largely self-taught, he was graduated from Manhattan's DeWitt Clinton High School and worked on several magazines and dailies as a reporter, ad manager and editor before he was spotted by Hearst's Prince of the Realm, Arthur Brisbane, who took...
...publisher of the Examiner, he shied away from canned Hearst projects, built its circulation to the highest in the city by "putting out a neighborhood paper for the guy next door." A quiet, popular boss with an impassive face and bearing of a benevolent Buddha, Lindner let Managing Editor William Wren run the paper, except for occasional suggestions. Almost every day until The Chief became too ill, Lindner was on the phone talking to him, advising old W.R. on financial and editorial matters, listening attentively to "suggestions," adopting some, diplomatically talking The Chief out of others. Lindner...
Last week, in his three-story house high atop San Francisco's Telegraph Hill, Clarence Lindner, 62, died of a heart attack. His chief competitor, the San Francisco Chronicle's Editor Paul Smith, provided an epitaph: "I respected Lindner because he outdid me on everything I ever tried...
Publisher Lindner's successor: Charles Mayer, 48, a Lindner protégé who went to the Examiner in 1926 direct from the University of California, has been business manager for the past 22 years...