William Randolph Hearst Jr

William Randolph Hearst Jr., a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the editor in chief of the media empire his father founded, died in May 1993 at New York Hospital. He was 85 and lived in Manhattan. His professional and personal lives blended as he socialized with celebrities like John Wayne and Bing Crosby, New York power brokers and night club socialites, the Washington elite and foreign dignitaries. He flew planes and was fond of high-performance cars. He supported Senator Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin long after others had abandoned him. In 1974 his niece, Patricia, was abducted by the Symbionese Liberation Army and eventually joined in their terrorist exploits, The second of five sons of William Randolph and Millicent Willson Hearst, William Jr. was born in Manhattan on Jan. 27, 1908. Hearst's marriages to Alma Walker and Lorelle McCarver ended in divorce, and his third wife, the former Austine McDonnell, died in 1991. He is survived by two sons, both of whom followed in the family business: William Randolph Hearst 3d, who became publisher of The Examiner, and Austin Hearst of Manhattan, who became president of Hearst Entertainment and Syndication.