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...Three former Regents: Prince Cyril, brother of the late Tsar Boris III and uncle of the boy King Simeon II; ex-Premier Professor Bogdan Filoff, Bulgarian expansionist, who preferred making history to teaching it; Lieut. General Nikola Mikhoff, who had held the mistaken belief that the German Army was invincible...
...California, 81-year-old Publisher Hearst had moved back into his feudal barony of San Simeon, which had been dark for three years. San Simeon was not what it used to be, for Hearst had been forced to sell 165,000 acres of it to get $2 million he badly needed. But there were still 75,000 acres around the famed Enchanted Hill castle, enough to give him elbow room and privacy...
...Topping and Shipwreck Kelly; dashing out to the country to help Deems Taylor compose a new operetta. Between times there were play or ballet or opera openings with the William Rhinelander Stewarts, the Orson Munns, Prince Serge Obolensky, the Averell Harrimans, Sonny Whitney. Once a weekend at San Simeon lasted six weeks because the old man could not bear to let her go. From the bed she slept in, she could stare at a painting on the ceiling and listen to the lion roar in the private...
...chairman of VOKS, nervously trying to turn the tide, declared that VOKS was powerless to help the correspondents, and that they should appeal to the foreign office. The correspondents retorted that they had already appealed to the foreign office. Said famed Soviet children's poet Simeon Marshak: "We are only writers here; we are just a gathering of poets; we cannot help...
These observations appeared last week in a provocative new book about New York titled No Mean City (Dutton; $3). Though the name of its author, Simeon Strunsky, is reasonably familiar (he has written nine previous books), the man himself is one of the nation's least-known big-time journalists. Rare indeed is the New York Times reader who knows that Simeon Strunsky is the anonymous writer of the paper's witty, erudite editorial-page column, "Topics of the Times...