United Press International Frank Bartholomew, the last UP president to ascend to the agency's top job directly from its news, rather than sales ranks, took over in 1955, and according to his memoirs cited in Notes, was obsessed with merging UP with the International News Service, a news agency that had been founded by William Randolph Hearst in 1909 following Scripps' lead.
United Press International Frank Bartholomew the last UP president to ascend to the agency's top job directly from its news rather than sales ranks took over in 1955 and according to his memoirs cited in Notes was obsessed with merging UP with the International News Service a news agency that had been founded by William Randolph Hearst in 1909 following Scripps' lead