The torment of taxes has long been a cross which William Randolph Hearst bore noisily. But with that other mortal certainty, death, the many-mouthed publisher was for years too busy to be bothered. No stranger to Hearst, however, was death during the past year. From San Simeon's inner circle it took lovable No. 1 Sob-Sister Winifred Sweet Black Bonfils at 72, money-minded No. 1 Columnist-Editor Arthur Brisbane at 72, exacting No. 1 Sunday Editor Morrill Goddard at 70.
Plainly shocked by these intimate losses, reminded of "my few remaining years," Publisher Hearst at 74...
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