Hearst, Austine McDonnell, 1918-1991

Austine Byrne McDonnell Hearst; born 23 Nov 1918 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA; died 15 Jun 1991 (aged 72) in Manhattan, New York County (Manhattan), New York, USA

Austine McDonnell Hearst, a former reporter who was married to the editor in chief of the Hearst newspapers, died on Sunday at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan. She was 72 years old and lived in Manhattan... She and William Randolph Hearst Jr., chairman of the Hearst Corporation, were married in 1948. Her first marriage, to Igor Cassini, the designer, ended in divorce... Mrs. Hearst, who left the newspaper business in 1956, wrote "The Horses of San Simeon," (San Simeon Press, 1985), a book about breeding and raising horses. She was a graduate of the College of Notre Dame of Maryland in Baltimore. Besides her husband, she is survived by two sons, William Randolph Hearst 3d, publisher of The San Francisco Examiner, and Austin, of Manhattan, vice president of Hearst Entertainment and Syndication