Word: jr
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Furthermore, Robeson told reporters: "Everything I said during my tour of Europe was distorted by ... American press agencies. I prefer to give what I have to say to papers like the Daily Worker." Later in the week, still pestered by newsmen at the wedding of his son, Paul Jr., to Marilyn Greenberg, a white Cornell classmate, Baritone Robeson denounced the U.S. press once more: "I have the greatest contempt for the democratic press, and there is something within me which keeps me from breaking your cameras over your heads." Besides, he added angrily, "this marriage would not have caused...
...such jobs, among the politicians and jurists, the pages pick up, for better or worse, the major part of their education; the school is still a minor influence. As Valedictorian Randall V. Oakes Jr., 18, understated after graduation last week: "You get to see a lot in the House...
Most of the heirs of old Claus-five women and three men, among them Playboy (five marriages) Adolph B. Spreckels Jr.-had shown little interest in the business. As they needed cash to continue living in their high & handsome manner, they preferred to liquidate the empire. Ambitious Charlie de Bretteville, a distant Spreckels kin and longtime employee of the company, was glad to help in the liquidation. He formed a new outfit called the Spreckels Companies, with the aid of Virgil Dardi, the shrewd boss of Blair Holdings Corp., a California investment firm, and Claus's grandchildren, sisters Alma...
Dime-a-Dose. In Madison, Tenn., Spray-a-Tan, Inc. started production of a coin-operated machine, invented by William H. Hayes and William B. Jakes Jr., designed to take the sand and rubbing out of suntan oiling. For a dime, a sunbather can step up to an aluminum cabinet (see cut) and spray himself with oil for 60 seconds. The price: $200 a machine and $7 a gallon...
Born. To William Randolph Hearst Jr., 42, balding second of The Chief's five sons, publisher of the New York Journal-American, and third wife Austine ("Bootsie") McDonnell Cassini Hearst, 29, the Washington Times-Herald's society gossipist ("These Charming People"): their first child, a son; in Washington. Name: William Randolph III. Weight...