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DAVID WHITMIRE HEARST
David Whitmire Hearst, publisher of Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express, was born December 2, 1915, in New York City, New York. He is the son of William Randolph and Millicent (Willson) Hearst.
He was a student at St. Bernard's, New York City, from 1927 to 1930, St. George's, Newport, Rhode Island, from 1931 to 1933, and Princeton University from 1933 to 1936.
Mr. Hearst began his newspaper career as a reporter for the New York Journal-American; then assistant advertising director, and later city editor, of the Baltimore (Maryland) News-Post. He became associated with the Los Angeles Evening Herald-Express in 1938, where he was in classified and display advertising until 1944, business manager, 1944 to 1945, manager, 1945 to 1947, executive publisher, 1947 to 1950, and publisher since 1950. he is also vice president and director of Hearst Consolidated Publications, Inc.; vice president and director of Hearst Publishing Company, Inc., and publisher of the Herald and Express division of same.
He is director of Los Angeles County Museum; director of Community Chest; and member of the following clubs: California, Jonathan, Wilshire Country (Los Angeles); and Maryland (Baltimore) Club.
Mr. Hearst married Hope Chandler on March 23, 1938, and they are the parents of two children: Millicent and David, Jr.
Home: 2111 Coldwater Canyon, Beverly Hills, California.
Offices: Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express, Los Angeles 54, California.
Transcribed
11-8-14 Marilyn
R. Pankey.
Source: Eminent
Californians 1953, by Lee E. Johnson & C. W. Taylor. Page 509, C. W. Taylor
Publ., Palo Alto, California, 1953.
© 2014 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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