Tag Archives: Millicent Hearst
Ed Frayne
Ed Frayne (Sports editor. Born, Brooklyn, NY, Nov. 8, 1892; died, Van Nuys, CA, Nov. 26, 1944.) Returning from California in November 1926, Edward J. Frayne became sports editor of the New York American, the morning broadsheet owned by William Randolph Hearst. Hearst also owned the tabloid Daily Mirror (started just two years earlier) and […]
Bill Farnsworth
Bill Farnsworth (Sports editor. Born, Milbury, MA, June 7, 1885; died, New York, NY, July 10, 1945.) Part of the triumvirate of Hearst newspaper stars who dominated the boxing business in New York in the 1920s, Wilton Simpson Farnsworth was sports editor of the Evening Journal for its last 12 years (1925-37). Farnsworth teamed with […]
