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Last week Editor Bruce Bliven of The New Republic openly wrote to William Randolph Hearst: "My immediate purpose ... is to suggest that you retire from active journalism. You are an elderly man. . . . Why not turn over the reins to someone else and enjoy the sunset years? . . . Things are going rather badly for your daily newspapers. . . . Even in cities where your papers have shown slight [circulation] gains, their competitors have run away from them by many thousands. . . In advertising revenue, also, your papers have not been doing so well. ... A special problem for you has been created by your present attitude...
...most men have come to the sunset of their lives and desire rest most of all. Political figures, at that age, write autobiographies and dwell over the past. On July 11, 1936, Senator Geo. William Norris was 75 and could look back on years of service in Washington. Instead he looked forward to another six years as senator, a term that will last until...
Runner-up for first prize, and a $500 prizewinner in the landscape division, was a photograph of a sunset behind mountainous thunderclouds submitted by Edmund P. Hogan of Meriden, Conn., an official of International Silver...
...Near Hyderabad, a palm tree followed Hindu prayer ritual, bowed to the ground every day at noon & sunset...
Shortly afterward, despite his absence from the life class, he won a $500 traveling scholarship. Wandering into the Sainte Chapelle in Paris just as the sunset struck its windows, Student Saint was overwhelmed by the "solid walls of jewel-like color - rubies, sapphires, golds, topaz tints, amethysts, Tokay grape shades and whites like old lace." His interest solidly caught in this religious art, Lawrence Saint lost no time in becoming an expert on stained glass, made 50 notable illustrations for the famed Stained Glass of the Middle Ages in England and France by English Expert Hugh Arnold...