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...some years the identity of the author of Topics of The Times was a matter for speculation; usually he is Simeon Strunsky, 63-year-old editor, essayist, ex-encyclopedist (New International...
...friend of William Randolph Hearst, whom he visits at San Simeon and with whom he sometimes exchanges public telegrams on public questions on the front pages of Hearst newspapers. Hearst likes him so well that his papers have started several abortive booms: "Griffin-for-Mayor," "Griffin-for-Senator," and report his comings & goings as if he were somebody. Most of Griffin's trips have been to Eire, where he made himself popular by clamoring for Irish independence. When he launched the Enquirer in 1926 he became one of the most violent Anglophobes and isolationists in the U.S. His paper...
...staff of critics consisting of 300 men of affairs, some of them graduates of Princeton. Their job: "to criticize, encourage and stimulate" the university's classroom and scholarly work. Some of the critics: the New York Herald Tribune's Walter Lippmann, the New York Times's Simeon Strunsky and Arthur Krock, Newscaster Lowell Thomas (M.A. '16), Pollster George H. Gallup, Critic Carl Van Doren, Under Secretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal (ex-'15), Civilian Defense Director James M. Landis ('21), New Jersey's Governor Charles Edison...
...bargain was offered in Manhattan: William Randolph Hearst's 12th-Century Spanish monastery, tastefully packaged in 10,400 crates, ready for delivery, at $19,000. Gimbel Brothers knocked it down from $50,000, for a quick sale. It cost the Lord of San Simeon more than $500,000 to get it here from Spain...
...Class 1-A draft registrants had flunked the Army's literacy test (TIME, June 8). Nodding gravely, Columbia University's Professor Emeritus William C. Bagley, editor of School and Society, pronounced the figures "deplorable and discouraging." But the New York Times's silver-lined Columnist Simeon Strunsky observed that it was not as bad as all that: the Army had simply stiffened the literacy test, on the theory that "what is good enough for peacetime intelligence is not good enough for the Army...