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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when she handed him $1,000,000 to help save his faltering empire. This week the empire was shaken by the news that Hearst had made it up to her handsomely indeed; he had picked her to be the boss of his vast editorial domain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hearst's Bombshell | 9/3/1951 | See Source »

...swallowed his pride, and turned over financial control of his overextended empire to a board of regents headed by Manhattan Lawyer Clarence Shearn and Broker John W. Hanes, former Under Secretary of the Treasury. For Hearst himself, it meant a cut in his reckless spending; for his crazy-quilt domain it meant consolidations, ruthless budget cuts. One night in Manhattan's Ritz Tower, Marion Davies did her bit: she calmly wrote out a check for $1,000,000 and handed it across a table to W.R. Choking, Hearst told her: "Some day, Marion, I'll make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The King Is Dead | 8/20/1951 | See Source »

...Colonial Secretary, Winston Churchill, made Abdullah Emir of Trans-Jordan and made his brother Feisal King of Iraq. The boys had their troubles. Their father, Hussein, Sherif of Mecca, was attacked by his old rival, Ibn Saud. In the end, Ibn Saud drove the Sherif out of his domain, annexed Mecca and the surrounding district to his holdings in Arabia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Arab Gentleman | 7/30/1951 | See Source »

SAUDI ARABIA (estimated pop. 3,500,000): desert domain of KING IBN SAUD, 71, who took parts of it by force in 1925 from Hussein, the Sherif of Mecca and Abdullah's father; in theory, a theocracy; in fact, an absolute monarchy. Member of the Arab League. Ibn Saud's main income: $100 million yearly in royalties for oil concessions to Aramco. Army: 15,000, plus tribal irregulars. At Dhahran: important U.S. air base...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: THE MIDDLE EAST | 7/30/1951 | See Source »

...right to Lewis Carroll's 1865 classic have fallen into the public domain, making Alice fair game for any moviemaker. Disney announced his project in 1945, at about the time Bunin had the same idea. Bunin moved faster and held a 1949 premiere in Paris. In the U.S., Disney had gained an edge in 1938 by registering his Alice in Wonderland title with the Motion Picture Association of America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Battle of Wonderland | 7/16/1951 | See Source »

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