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...Citadel (Robert Donat, Rosalind Russell; TIME...
When the silverware from William Randolph Hearst's castle of St. Donat's in Wales was sold at a loss in London last November (TIME, Nov. 29), many an observer wondered how soon Mr. Hearst would begin to sell the rest of his hoard. The total Hearst collection of art and art objects has never been catalogued except in its owner's capacious memory, but its monstrous character has been a popular legend for years. Last autumn the New Yorker tried to investigate one of the five Hearst warehouses, a square block building in The Bronx...
...hoard of treasure is probably the most heterogeneous ever amassed by one man. Collector Hearst began in 1891 with English Staffordshire furniture and continued for 47 years to gorge a Gargantuan appetite for possessions. Housed at San Simeon, at Sands Point, L. I., in Manhattan, at St. Donat's and in the Hearst warehouses, his hodgepodge includes thousands of pieces of furniture, tapestries, armor, and hundreds of paintings including a few estimable Bouchers, Van Dycks, Rembrandts. Corrected by precise Agent Parish-Watson last week was the New Yorker's, tale of the palaces stored in The Bronx warehouse...
Last spring 74-year-old William Randolph Hearst began to set his enormous affairs in order. One of the properties on which he wanted the public to lend him $35,500,000 was St. Donat's Castle in Wales, the Lord of San Simeon's European seigniory. Two months ago the registration statement by which Mr. Hearst sought the approval of the Securities & Exchange Commission for an issue of bonds to that amount was discreetly withdrawn. Recently, however, Publisher Hearst unburdened himself of four of his newspapers, and last week he succeeded in realizing a little something...
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