Today, the Hearst Castle is a major California tourist attraction. Perhaps the best-known event of William Randolph Hearst's very public life was his effort to suppress Citizen Kane, a thinly ...

Gilbert C. Maurer, director and former chief operating officer of Hearst and trustee of the trust established under the will of William Randolph Hearst, died yesterday at his home in Palm Beach.

William Randolph Hearst believed he was not reporting history but was instead creating it. By the end of the 1920s, Hearst owned newspapers in almost every major city, as well as magazines and ...