Word: simeone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sutherland Bates, 60, insatiably curious author & critic, onetime literary editor of the Dictionary of American Biography; of a heart attack; in The Bronx, N. Y. In one work-crammed year (1936) Dr. Bates produced: The Story of the Supreme Court, The Story of Congress, Hearst, the Lord of San Simeon (coauthor), The Bible Designed To Be Read as Living Literature. Few minutes before his death Author Bates had concluded the preface to his latest book, American Faith, treatise on U. S. religions from 1860 to the present...
...cutting their chain down to eight. Weakest of these has been the Portland (Ore.) News-Telegram, chief loser in a circulation war between Portland's other two papers, the morning Oregonian and the evening Oregon Journal. To boost the Journal's falling circulation, its shrewd business manager, Simeon Reed Winch, last week did the smartest thing he could do: persuaded the Scripps boys to fold their News-Telegram and took over (for a reported $600,000) its features and circulation. After eliminating duplication, the Journal should get between 20,000 and 25,000 circulation from the News-Telegram...
When Soapmaker Samuel Simeon Fels financed a planetarium for Philadelphia, Stokley...
...spent money as few princes ever dared to do. He ensconced himself in San Simeon with a zoo, bought St. Donat's castle in Wales, built an elaborate Hollywood publicity machine to glorify Marion Davies, indulged himself insatiably in the purchase of art treasures until he had spent $35,000,000 for what could have been bought for about $15,000,000. For money he used the income of his papers (of which he bought six more), the profits of the mines he had inherited from his prospector father, and a pocketful of promissory notes. Always a worry...
...nearly two years he has just sat there, no longer absolute boss even of his papers' policies. He still owns fabulous Wyntoon and San Simeon (subject to Mr. Chandler's mortgage), still dines celebrities from silver plate in medieval splendor (on his allowance from Judge Shearn); but at 75 the bad boy of U. S. journalism is just a hired editorial writer who has taken a salary...