Art: Property of a Gentleman

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Hearst sought the approval of the Securities & Exchange Commission for an issue of bonds to that amount was discreetly withdrawn.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 on...

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