Word: simeone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rough, tough Lou Ruppel, ex-captain of Marines (TIME, Jan. 15). He had tried to give Hearst's Chicago Herald American the same rowdy tone he had given the tabloid Chicago Times before the war. But the cold, tired old voice that came over the telephone from San Simeon was not pleased, and out blew...
...York Times Topicker Simeon Strunsky, who usually does, saw the brighter side of things in the long lines waiting to buy papers at the plants. Wrote he: "It is calculated to make a newspaper man's bosom swell with pride, like Sir Joseph Porter, K.C.B., riding at anchor in Pinafore. . . ." Other newsmen felt as if they were talking into a dead mike...
...died leaving behind his minor masterpiece of repentant self-martyrdom, The Hound of Heaven. Poet James Thomson (The City of Dreadful Night) crept starving to the bed of a blind friend, who stretched out his hands and withdrew them covered with the blood of Thomson's fatal hemorrhage. Simeon Solomon died in a poorhouse; consumption killed Ernest Dowson (Cynara) at 33. Brilliant Aubrey Beardsley, whose delicate, sensual illustrations for Wilde's Salome became more famous than the play itself, died of tuberculosis, complicated by high living, at 25, leaving a curt, harrowing letter to a friend...
...hrer 's death, while Hitler himself goes underground." To fasten the hoax on posterity, Reichsbildberichterstatter (Photo graphic Reporter for the Reich) Heinrich Hoffmann would "be on hand to film Hitler's last moment on the battlefield."* -Whose 82nd birthday was celebrated this week at a San Simeon party attended by sons and satellites (Louella Parsons...
...commanding officer, just like you." He had not written the editorial, he said; it came canned from Hearst GHQ. Then call Hearst, demanded the marines, and "we'd like to hear the call." Wren tried, but got only as far as the No. 1 secretary at San Simeon ("Mr. Hearst is too busy to be disturbed"). In the midst of these negotiations, Navy shore patrol men and a police riot squad clumped up the stairs, then went away again, assured that the marines had the situation well in hand...