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...Hearst plane, carrying International Socialites Terence Conyngham Baron Plunket and Dorothé Lewis Barnato Lady Plunket to visit Publisher Hearst's San Simeon Ranch, glided down to San Luis Obispo field in a heavy fog. The pilot overshot his mark, crashed. All three were killed. Next night, in Reno's various clubs, including Club Fortune, Mrs. Lois Clarke de Ruyter Spreckels Clinton, her divorced sugar-heir husband, Adolph Bernard Spreckels Jr., and two friends toasted each other until all hours. Before dawn they boarded Mr. Spreckels' private plane to fly to San Francisco. The plane rose...
Last spring 74-year-old William Randolph Hearst began to set his enormous affairs in order. One of the properties on which he wanted the public to lend him $35,500,000 was St. Donat's Castle in Wales, the Lord of San Simeon's European seigniory. Two months ago the registration statement by which Mr. Hearst sought the approval of the Securities & Exchange Commission for an issue of bonds to that amount was discreetly withdrawn. Recently, however, Publisher Hearst unburdened himself of four of his newspapers, and last week he succeeded in realizing a little something...
...with artists and Town Hall. The season over, astute Friend of Music Hirschmann could grin at calamity-howlers; he was out of pocket only $400. Last Sunday, when the New Friends' second season opened, Mr. Hirschmann's grin was even wider. Mayor LaGuardia, District Attorney-Elect Dewey, Simeon Strunsky of the New York Times, as well as many a plain music-lover, had bought in advance every one of Town Hall's 1,476 seats for the 16 concerts-for chamber music, a record...
Died. Archbishop Simeon, 98, Orthodox Archbishop of Varna and Preslav, Bulgaria ; of pneumonia; in Sofia. He took part in Bulgaria's struggle for freedom from Turkey, in the fight for an independent Bulgarian church, was one of the drafters of the Bulgarian constitution...
...other is the evening Times). She said she wanted time to think it over, and meanwhile in April arranged to lease the Herald. Last fortnight she heard that Mr. Meyer had increased his bid. Now thoroughly alarmed at the prospect of losing her pride & joy, she called San Simeon again. "Well, Cissy," said Mr. Hearst, "you tell me what you want to do and I'll have my folks...