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Died. Thomas Bucklin Wells, 69, expatriate former editor of Harper's Magazine; after long illness; in Paris. The fourth of Harper's able editors (1919 to 1931),* Yaleman Wells reorganized Harper & Bros.' finances, wiped out a $1,000,000 debt, retired to Paris in 1931. He was too ill to be moved during the occupation, died several days before the city's liberation...
William Randolph Hearst, who unloaded part of his estimated $15,000,000 to $50,000,000 art collection by over-the-counter sales at Manhattan's Gimbel Bros., lost another estimated $300,000 to $500,000 worth in a fire which destroyed one of the main buildings at Wyntoon, his summer home in McCloud, Calif...
...Jane Eyre), written five books. Now 51, he lives with his wife Martha on a lonely ranch near Llano in the Mojave Desert, 80 miles from Los Angeles. "The only social life,"he says, "is with the cows." The Huxleys' son Matthew, 22, is a reader for Warner Bros...
...sponsor: San Francisco's Roos Bros, clothing store, over the city's KYA (nightly, 7:10-7:30 p.m., P.W.T...
...famed Japcaster goes to KYA's 6-ft., 31-year-old, South Dakota-born president, Don Fedderson. He got the idea one morning at 4 o'clock. It stood the test of daylight. It pleased both the FCC and the Office of Censorship. It delighted Roos Bros, who, in a trial poll on the propriety of the program, got 97% approval. The poll's heavy mailbag indicated that the program would collect a sizable audience...