Word: simeone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...memoir entitled The Times We Had. Hearst, who was 58 when he discovered Marion as a chorus girl of 16, was "the kindest, most innocent, naive person you'd ever want to meet." Despite the millions he spent on his 300,000-acre estate at San Simeon in California, he provided his guests with paper napkins (he considered them more sanitary than linen). Few seemed to mind, including Calvin Coolidge, who once dropped by for a visit after retiring from politics. Davies impishly served the teetotaling former President tokay wine, while assuring him that it was nonalcoholic. "He started...
...them a tour of his seven-story castle at Osaka, "is full of gold, this one of silver; this other compartment is full of bales of silk and damask, that one with robes, while these rooms contain costly swords and weapons." It sounds like an Oriental Hearst at San Simeon, but the vast ostentation of the Momoyama warlords had a political aim: to dazzle visitors and cow supplicants. In private they practiced a cult of austerity the essence of which lay in the tea ceremony: the rough bowl, the unpainted wooden panel, the natural stone which, in manifesting sabi (simplicity...
Mighty Chain. The greatest pressure for change has come from Willie. Physically akin to his grandfather, with piercing eyes, patrician nose and blond hair, young Hearst says that he has always been fascinated by the once mighty chain of 32 dailies. "As a kid I would go to San Simeon [the vast Hearst estate] and groove on the whole vision. I really admired my grandfather. What a mover! I decided you had to have money to do these things, and I realized the money came from the papers...
...Simeon D. Fess, chairman of the Republican National Committee, announced that a conspiracy was afoot to embarrass the administration through the stock market. What evidence did he cite for this belief...
Almost all have given up hopes of returning. Don Juan and Umberto still hold shadow court in Portugal's Estoril, but more as a gesture to the past than a look to the future. Albania's Leka and Bulgaria's Simeon, on the other hand, still work for the day when their people will come to their senses and call them back. The only one who seems to have a real chance of resuming the kingly tradition, however, is Don Juan's son Prince Juan Carlos, who has been promised the Spanish throne on the death...