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| | Randolph Hearst, a Hearst, 85 |
 | | Monday December 18 7:44 PM ET Randolph Hearst, kidnap victim's father, is dead SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Randolph Apperson Hearst, last surviving son of newspaper baron William Randolph Hearst and father of Patricia Hearst, the kidnapped heiress of the 1970s, died Monday of a stroke. |
 | | Randolph Hearst, whose publishing riches were built atop a gold, silver and copper fortune, was recently listed by Forbes magazine as No. 150 of the 400 richest people in the country. |
 | | William Randolph Hearst, who died in 1951 at the age of 88, did not leave control of the vast Hearst media empire to any one of his five sons but put it under the stewardship of professional managers while Hearst family members received five of the 13 seats on the board of directors. |
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