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| | obits.com, The Internet Obituary Network, Obituary for William Randolph Hearst |
 | | Though Hearst and his wife would have 5 sons between 1904 and 1915 when their twins David and Randolph were born, Hearst was first a largely absent husband, then a philandering one, spending 30 years with his publicly flaunted mistress, actress Marion Davies. |
 | | Hearst established a number of telegraph services, became an early investor in wireless radio, with broadcast stations across the country, and became one of the first pilots in America, purchasing and flying his own aircraft less than a decade after the Wright Brothers made their charter flight at Kittyhawk. |
 | | Hearst's logical next venture in media was motion pictures, though his involvement with the film industry was ultimately influenced by his long love affair with Brooklyn-born actress Marion Davies, whom he had sought out after seeing her 1917 film "Runaway Romany", which she had scripted, starred in, and produced with her brother-in-law. |
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