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...United Press) and various feature syndicates. Hearst, another prodigious newspaper buyer, acquired a total of 42 dailies, also had his own wire service (International News Service), a Sunday supplement (American Weekly), a kit bag of magazines, and even a film company (established mainly to produce star vehicles for his mistress). In 1933, with 27 papers, Hearst controlled 11.2% of U.S. daily circulation and nearly 20% on Sunday...
Faced with "accomplished facts," said Sihanouk, he could only pay indemnities to the families and marry his son off to one Miss Tea Kim Yin, so "that no girl should henceforth become his mistress." Families, continued Sihanouk, must warn their daughters "against falling in love with His Royal Highness. As for me, in my capacity as father. I will not allow my son to continue to do such things, and I will continue to advise and scold him. If certain parents and daughters do not pay attention to my warning, they should not hold me responsible...
...novel Lolita traced the carnal pursuit of a twelve-year-old American nymphet by a middle-aged European émigré named Humbert Humbert, and the rather Electrafying relationship that developed between the stepfather-seducer and the child-mistress. The book's last scene is the movie's first. Moving numbly through a Hollywood-style mansion full of bottles, harps, glasses, statues, bot tles, grand pianos, glasses, sheeted furniture and an incongruous pingpong table...
...estate, which Praun now wanted to sell. The purchaser she provided was a Dr. Schmitz. Six days after arranging a meeting with Schmitz, Dr. Praun was found dead in his home, a gun under his hand. In the basement was the body of his housekeeper and occasional mistress...
...scene sets the mood. A French chemist has just begun to make love to his mistress, a Balenciaga model, of course, when the phone jangles on the bedside table. On the wire is his wife, also a chemist, who utters a line for the ages: "Pull your pants on and come home...