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...argument: Should State governments be abolished as political anachronisms and their administrative authority divided up among fen regional districts, as recommended by Ohio State University's Professor Peter H. Odegard, or turned over to their largest and richest cities, as favored by University of Chicago's Professor Simeon Eldridge Leland...
Married. George ("Fanny") Hearst, 29, fat eldest son of William Randolph Hearst: and one Lorna Pratt Velie; by California's Governor James Rolph Jr.; at the Hearst ranch in San Simeon, Calif. Last year Bridegroom Hearst was divorced by Mrs. Blanche Wilbur Hearst at Los Angeles...
Some of the more than 400 saints: Simeon Stylites, who lived 38 years on a pillar, at first 9 ft., at last 60 ft. high. Sebastian, who was shot full of arrows but (according to Author Wescott's account) recovered and was beaten to death. Gothard, absent-minded Alpine hermit, hung his coat on a sunbeam; the obliging beam waited till the coat was removed, then hurried after the setting sun. When Agnes of Monte Pulciano prayed, roses and lilies fell from heaven, "because she never did it mechanically." Philip Neri, disciple of Savonarola, said: "Despise the world; despise...
Then, with Mrs. Shaw, he climbed into a plane to fly-before re-embarking at San Pedro and sailing around to New York- down to San Simeon to visit Publisher William Randolph Hearst. There, while Marion Davies and other guests "drank in every word," Mr. Hearst's syndicated cinema critic, Louella 0. Parsons, had an exclusive audience. Excerpts from her report...
Married. John Randolph Hearst, 23, third son of Publisher William Randolph Hearst; and Gretchen Wilson of Alexandria, La., great-great-granddaughter of Thomas Jonathan ("Stonewall") Jackson; at "La Cuesta Encantada" (Enchanted Hill), the Hearst ranch at San Simeon, Calif...