 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
This was due partly to the depression, which caused people to buy much fewer books, partly to the fact that I was no longer writing popular books, and partly to my having refused to stay with Hearst in 1931 at his castle in California. My weekly articles in the Hearst newspapers had brought me ￡1000 a year, but after my refusal the pay was halved, and very soon I was told the articles were no longer required.
Source: Bertrand Russell: The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, v.2 chap. 5: Later Years of Telegraph House, 1968
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William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951), famous as the model for the film Citizen Kane, was known as the Newspaper King; Wikipedia has a detailed account of this for those interested.
* a brief comment.: William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951), famous as the model for the film Citizen Kane, was known as the Newspaper King; Wikipedia has a detailed account of this for those interested.
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