When the silverware from William Randolph Hearst's castle of St. Donat's in Wales was sold at a loss in London last November (TIME, Nov. 29), many an observer wondered how soon Mr. Hearst would begin to sell the rest of his hoard. The total Hearst collection of art and art objects has never been catalogued except in its owner's capacious memory, but its monstrous character has been a popular legend for years. Last autumn the New Yorker tried to investigate one of the five Hearst warehouses, a square block building in The...
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