Deaths

Randolph Apperson Hearst, 85, the last surviving son of the legendary newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, died Dec. 18 at a New York hospital after suffering a stroke. Randolph Hearst was chairman of the family's media empire from 1973 to 1996. Hearst, one of five sons of the newspaper mogul caricatured by Orson Welles in "Citizen Kane," began work as a cub reporter covering police, courts and City Hall with the Hearst-owned Call-- Bulletin in San Francisco. At the time his daughter, Patricia, was kidnapped by the revolutionary Symbionese Liberation Army in 1974, he was also editor and president of the San Francisco Examiner. Throughout the kidnapping ordeal, Hearst left his mansion regularly to face the media and discuss the latest SLA demands. When the group demanded that the Hearsts give millions of dollars in food to California's poor, he headed up the People In Need giveaway program, pledging $2 million. An heir to the family's gold, silver and copper fortune who also earned millions each year from the Hearst Corp.'s media holdings, Hearst's personal wealth recently was estimated by Forbes magazine to be $1.8 billion.

John T. "Jack" Norman, 82, who retired from the AP-Dow Jones Newswire in 1990, died of cancer Dec. 29 at a hospice in Fort Myers, Fla. Norman, who joined the news service in 1967 as its first and only Washington correspondent, also contributed to The...