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...five-year contract with Marshall Field calls for a $2,000-a-week minimum. The Field organization was not equipped to sell the new strip nationally, so left-winger Field, who shudders at William Randolph Hearst on his editorial page, made a deal with the old lord of San Simeon. For selling Steve Canyon, Hearst's King Features Syndicate got first rights to run the new strip in all Hearst papers outside Chicago (including the tabloid Mirror in New York, instead of Field's small...
...vote had been counted. Score: for a republic, 4,103,000; for the King, 179,275. Promptly the National Assembly had proclaimed the People's Republic. There was nothing left for Bulgaria's nine-year-old Simeon II to do but join his grandfather, Italy's ex-King Victor Emmanuel, in Egypt. This week, Simeon and his mother packed for exile...
...such gala occasion as had marked the boy King Simeon II's birth nine years before. Then a three-day holiday had been decreed; amnesty had been granted to thousands of political prisoners; Army officers had been decorated. Now, instead of amnesty, the prisons were filling fast; instead of decorations, some 1,900 Army officers got dismissals. The charge: "opposition to the present Government"-the Communist-dominated "Fatherland Front" which was swept into power when the majority party, the Agrarians, boycotted the last elections...
...Simeon Wolfman...
William Randolph Hearst, 82, seemed to be getting all set. Columnist Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. snooped around San Simeon, Calif., reported workmen building "an atomic cellar for the stooped old gent to disappear into when the next great war comes along...