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Said Marion Davies one day last week: "Gosh, I'm getting so fed up with Pop spending the whole time talking politics." It was politics that had brought William Randolph Hearst, 78, from San Simeon to San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel, whither he summoned his editors and publishers to discuss war policy. Springy of step, looking fitter than he had in years, the old publisher seemed to his admiring Hearstlings well nigh indestructible...
...wanted it thrown out, said it was humorless, a waste of space. When Gauvreau balked, Brisbane roared: "Children can be better occupied reading Sir James Jeans about the world we live in. Throw that rat out!" Too old for Mirror journalism, Brisbane one day received a wire from San Simeon: "Dear Arthur, you are now getting out the worst news paper in the United States...
...were liberal, trout-fishing Bishop Simeon Arthur Huston and fat, jovial Dean John D. McLauchlan. But the bank hoped that padlocking, stripping the altar, extinguishing the sanctuary lamp might stir the congregation into a drive to refinance its debts...
Perched in his San Simeon splendor, Mr. Hearst was supposed to be hopping mad. This young Orson Welles had made for RKO an insulting movie about his life called Citizen Kane. Led by his official ministress to the movie capital, Columnist Lolly Parsons, many a Hearst favor-seeker sent word to The Chief that they could fix everything. Soon the machinery of Hollywood pressure began to throttle Citizen Kane...
...Donated to San Simeon Museum in Golden Gate Park...