Hearst, Patty (1954—)
The granddaughter of newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst, 19-year-old heiress Patty Hearst was abducted from her Berkeley college residence in February 1974, spark...
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Patty Hearst
Born: February 20, 1954 AKA: Tania
Kidnapped as a young woman, Patty Hearst was transformed into “Tania” during her nineteen-month odyssey as a captive—and then a membe...
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Patty Hearst
February 20, 1954 Tania
Robber
Patricia Hearst, the granddaughter of newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst, gained notoriety in 1974, when she was kidnapped by the Symbionese Libe...
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Patricia Hearst (born 1954) was heiress to a wealthy newspaper publisher when she was kidnapped and held for ransom by a small leftist terrorist group in California. She was later tried and sent to pr...
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The middle child of five daughters, Hearst was born in San Francisco, California, on February 20, 1954. Her father, Randolph Apperson Hearst, was chairman of the board of the Hearst Corporation--the l...
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William Randolph Hearst was the Rupert Murdoch of his day. “He is,” President Teddy Roosevelt once wrote, “the most potent single influence for evil we have in our life.” He...
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Like a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the Crossroads, by Greil Marcus, Public Affairs, 283 pages, $25.Greil Marcus, writing about Sam Cooke's posthumously released single "A Change Is Gonna Come," rig...
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Dear Paris,
Please read this letter before it’s too late. Please read it while you are still able. Please read it while your eyeballs are still ungouged. Please read it before your spray-tan...
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Dear Paris,
Please read this letter before it’s too late. Please read it while you are still able. Please read it while your eyeballs are still ungouged. Please read it before your spray-t...
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“There have been a number of occasions where we said, ‘This story’s bullshit,’” said Eason Jordan.
Mr. Jordan is familiar with the art of second-guessing. Two years a...
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When the divorce trial of John Randolph (Bunky) Hearst Jr. and his wife, Barbara, makes its way to Manhattan Supreme Court next month, the missus will presumably jostle for some of the millions of ...
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Speaking ill of Rent has always been comparable to tearing up a red AIDS ribbon on Eighth Avenue, or kicking one of those little AIDS babies you used to hear so much about but totally don’t a...
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