The Press: Young Bill

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Today, at 38, he is still lean, balding, a little on the gaunt side. He works long hours, is tired when he gets home to his suite at the Park Lane, and to his trim-figured, brunette second wife, Lorelle, 33. Their living room has an impressive assortment of drawings and photographs of Lorelle, accumulated in their twelve years of married life.

Like her husband, Lorelle McCarver Hearst, who was once a Follies girl, is the darling of her father-in-law's haunted-looking eye. Like Young Bill's, the copy she writes is wired to San Simeon for personal editing by Hearst Sr. In the past year she has made two reporting trips to Europe (on the second she wrote that she only reports "what I see and am told").

"I'm proud of my husband," said Lorelle Hearst last week. "He's never really lived a rich boy's life. If he can become someone important, that's all I want out of it. ... He's really going to branch out now.