William Randolph Hearst III didn't retreat, Dilbert-like, into a cubicle at a San Jose startup.

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William Randolph Hearst III is an odd bird.

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But William Randolph Hearst III has also inherited some of his Grandfather's literary genes.(Despite the Yellow Journalist tag, Hearst the First was undeniably a heckuva writer.) Under Will Hearst's stewardship, the Examiner enjoyed a reputation for fine, punchy writing and he even wrote the forward to a book about a 19th-century comic strip called Hogan ' s Alley.

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