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...contributor was asked to write about his favorite saint. Two saints, Francis of Assisi and the Spanish mystic John of the Cross, were selected twice. Poet Noyes has written about St. John the Evangelist as the most "intuitive" of the Apostles. George Lamb, a young British Catholic, discusses St. Simeon Stylites, the 5th century hermit who spent 37 years sitting on a pillar. Psychiatrist Karl Stern writes about St. Théreèse of Lisieux, a bourgeois French girl who died in 1897, at 24, in a Carmelite cloister. Also included: one Pope, Pius V; two Jesuits, Ignatius Loyola...
...Johnnie Ray, bride of the cry-baby singer, left her husband on tour and went to a Buffalo hospital for a pneumonia cure. Publisher William Randolph Hearst Jr. was nursing a "moderate concussion" and a wrenched right shoulder after taking a header from his horse on a San Simeon bridle path. German Conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler was forced to cancel the rest of his Salzburg Music Festival appearances after a bout of pneumonia. Hollywood's talking mule Francis was nursing bruised legs after her trailer jackknifed in traffic in Bridgeport, Conn...
...give his name to the college: Portland steamboat and mining Tycoon Simeon Gannett Reed, who put up the first money...
Trimming the Boss. In keeping with its new autonomy, San Francisco's Call-Bulletin revamped its entertainment section without a word of advice from headquarters. "In the old days," says Editor Lee Ettelson, "I couldn't possibly have done it without taking it down to San Simeon a couple of times for Mr. Hearst to tear it to pieces and rearrange." The Detroit Times, which seldom ran anything but canned editorials, now regularly runs two or three editorials a day on local subjects...
...doleful dachshund Helena beside her. She absently whispered a song: "Little old lady in a big red room, little old lady ..." To a visiting newsman, she spoke of happier days: "About four and a half years ago, we came here and quieted down. Before that, it was San Simeon and guests all the time. Hundreds of them. Oh, it was gay, let me tell you! We were riding and swimming and playing tennis, and Mr. Hearst was very active then. I remember the animals at San Simeon, and how we used to throw pebbles at the lions. We were always...