Word: randolph
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...another key military shift, President Johnson last week named General John P. McConnell, 56, to be Air Force vice chief of staff on July 31, replacing retiring General William F. McKee. A West Pointer ('32) who got his wings at Randolph Field in 1933, McConnell served in the Far East in World War II, was vice chief of staff at SAC, is currently deputy commander of the European Command...
Married. Millicent Phoebe Hearst, 25, United Nations correspondent for Hearst Headline Service, granddaughter of the late William Randolph, and Raouf Boudjakdji, 31, Algerian delegate to the U.N.; in a civil ceremony in Manhattan...
...rather reluctant about becoming millionaires," says Peter Randolph, the managing director of Britain's Wilkinson Sword Ltd. " It is prob ably going to be more worry than it is worth." Regret it as he may, Randolph will have to grin and bear it. This week Wilkinson stock goes on sale on the London Exchange for the first time -and the value of the shares retained by Randolph and other members of the family-owned company will make them all millionaires overnight. To the owners of 192-year-old Wilkinson, this is only the latest indignity heaped upon them...
...more than 1,000 offers from outside firms to merge or associate with it in favor of putting its stock up for sale. Although family interests will still retain a 71% control, the stock offering should yield nearly $15 million. "This share marketing is rather like leaving school," laments Randolph. "It is inevitable, but you regret...
There was a day when big-time swingers in their spats and waistcoats used to go to a Broadway show, look over the girls and select the ones they would have, like lobsters from a tank. William Randolph Hearst acquired Marion Davies that way. But that was the Ziegfeld era in the Pleistocene epoch. Modern Broadway is different. Chorus lines, even in musicals, are depleted, and those old self-made audience libertines have turned into relatively timid expense-account types who go, in a big verbal way, for the unattainable elf of the smash light comedy -the bright and blue...