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...exchequer chancellors (TIME, March 14, et ante). Last week, for reasons best known to his tax experts, William Randolph Hearst wrote a letter to Assessor W. M. Hollister of San Luis Obispo County, Calif. announcing that as of January 1 he had returned his legal residence to his San Simeon estate. Though he issued no detailed explanation of his return to native soil, the inference was that California would now be less expensive for him and his heirs than New York. For Assessor Hollister he listed $1,366,300.25 in "solvent credits," bringing his total assessable properties in San Luis...
Marshall H. Stone '22, Professor of Mathematics, and Simeon B. Wolbach, Shattuck Professor of Pathological Anatomy, were among 15 noted scientists elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences, meeting Wednesday in Washington...
Honoring William Randolph Hearst for returning to the Abbey Church of La Trinité at Fécamp, France, two 16th-century stained-glass windows, identified as stolen goods after he had bought them for his countryseat at San Simeon, Calif., the Paris Intransigeant identified him as a wealthy "manufacturer of garters...
...Waiting on his San Simeon, Calif, doorstep last month, William Randolph Hearst had a shock. Word was brought him that a few miles away, Britain's top-notch socialites, Lord & Lady Plunket, arriving as guests in one of his newspapers' airplanes, had crashed and burned to death. Lady Plunket, 38, was the only child of Actress Fannie Ward who, at 66, still weighs 100 pounds, still wears size twelve clothes, still advocates her "cult of youth." and is known in England as a U. S.-born "perennial flapper...
...great private collections surviving in America,* Mr. Hearst's hoard of treasure is probably the most heterogeneous ever amassed by one man. Collector Hearst began in 1891 with English Staffordshire furniture and continued for 47 years to gorge a Gargantuan appetite for possessions. Housed at San Simeon, at Sands Point, L. I., in Manhattan, at St. Donat's and in the Hearst warehouses, his hodgepodge includes thousands of pieces of furniture, tapestries, armor, and hundreds of paintings including a few estimable Bouchers, Van Dycks, Rembrandts. Corrected by precise Agent Parish-Watson last week was the New Yorker...