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Born. To King Simeon II, 27, King of Bulgaria deposed by the Communists, and Margarita Gómez-Acebo y Cejuela, 28, toast of Madrid society: their second son; in Madrid...
...Motorists driving from Los Angeles to San Francisco can turn off U.S. 101 and, at the price of a few extra hours, follow California Route 1 along the coast from San Luis Obispo to Monterey. Most spectacular is the 102-mile stretch from William Randolph Hearst's San Simeon estate through the Big Sur country to Carmel: with bare, steep cliffs on one side and a dizzying drop to the sea on the other, the narrow ribbon loops and spirals like a drunk. Subject to landslides and often shrouded in fog, it is closed at the first hint...
...stylites, as they were called, perched on platforms as high as 80 feet; lived on olives; occasionally were struck by lightning. Stylites like St. Simeon found "refuge in a tree as Noah found it in an ark, so as to avoid contact with a condemned world in its last agony and lead the life of a bird in the branches and the wind, a bird possessed of God and the thought of Heaven...
Foster, a poor boy from Boston, had everything to do with Reed. He went to Harvard and hated it. Foster in 1911 became the first president of Reed, which had been founded with $1,500,000 left by the widow of Simeon G. Reed (no kin of John), a Columbia River shipping magnate. Foster deliberately made Reed the informal, freewheeling opposite of then snooty, monolithic Harvard...
...Howard Fried, David Griffith (an undergraduate in the College), William Shores, and John Fiorito, made the most of the dramatic opportunities of their parts; doubling as angels in Part II, they were a smooth and delicate quartet. Particularly impressive was Arnold Voketaitis, bass, who sang God the Father and Simeon the Prophet. Throughout, he carefully controlled and phrased the rich tone of his voice...