Word: randolph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more agile conversationalist than any of his fellow press lords-or such transatlantic contemporaries as William Randolph Hearst or Joseph Medill Patterson-Maxwell Aitken was never noted for his powers of debate in Commons. But he was an adroit political tactician. He won his peerage for ''merging" the Lloyd George "Win the War" Cabinet in 1917, was made Minister of Information (propaganda) a year later, and in 1922 shoved his friend Andrew Bonar Law into the Prime Ministry. This was a shortlived triumph with a painful ending. Bonar Law died of cancer of the throat a year later...
Married. John Randolph Hearst, 29, third son of Publisher William Randolph Hearst; for the third time; to Fanne Wade, 23, Manhattan socialite; in Elkton...
...balder parts, it has surges of comedy mixed with surges of melodrama. It deals with attempts to conceal a wife and baby while at V. M. I., to conceal a women in one's room, and to conceal the fact of being out after hours. Wayne Morris as Billy Randolph manages to get the just blame for all these deception,--being a big hearted with bungler with big ideas. Priscilla Lane is his inspiration, while Eddie Albert as the dumb athlete and William Tracy as the hazed "rat" both give complete performances...
Appointed "social ambassadress-at-large" for San Francisco's 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition was Manhattan café society's clown, Elsa Maxwell. Irked, the N. Y. Daily News's World's Fair-conscious "Nancy Randolph" (real name: Frances Kilkenny) wrote: ". . . To-day this column intends to whack Grover Whalen hard for letting the rival San Francisco Exposition grab that peerless partygiver and fun-maker, Elsa Maxwell. Of course, Grover Whalen has Mrs. Astor . . . but she doesn't like publicity...
Last week Broadcaster Biow bought for less than $200,000 from Publisher William Randolph Hearst station WINS (Manhattan), announced that he would withdraw from his WNEW presidency and all stock ownership, assume full command of station WINS as soon as FCC approved the license transfer.* Meanwhile, Client Arde Bulova has been reported in the market for a Manhattan radio station...