Word: randolph
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...London's biggest Sunday newspaper was quite definite about it. Said Stafford Somerfield of the News of the World (circ. 6,484,445): "Neither Mr. Churchill nor any other writer decides where in the paper a story shall go. That is the editor's responsibility." But Randolph Frederick Edward Spencer Churchill, 52, the World's political columnist, was definite too. He did not want his interview with Britain's new Prime Minister, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, to get second billing to a story on traffic problems. Result of the argument: Randolph's resignation...
Thus last week the son of Winston Churchill propelled himself past yet another turning in his tempestuous journalistic career. The cause seemed trivial, but then, Randolph Churchill has habitually splintered his freelance over trifles. And anyway, it was only a matter of time until the News of the World joined the long list of newspapers where Churchill had previously found working conditions intolerable...
Even after this unwelcome expense, the News of the World was anxious to keep Churchill, if only for sentimental reasons: back in the 1930s, Randolph's father had been a frequent and fiery contributor to the paper. But Randolph is not very keepable. Only last month, when the World refused to publish an intemperate Churchill attack on Labor Party Leader Harold Wilson-whom Churchill described as "a barefoot dog"-Churchill had to pay a left-wing Labor weekly to carry the column...
Having been set adrift by the News of the World, Churchill will probably land on another London paper. It is not likely to be the Daily Mail, though, or the Daily Telegraph or the Evening Standard. Randolph has already been there...
...Paper with a Heart." About all that kept the Mirror going was its proprietor's reluctance to part with any of his properties. "Pop held on to some real dogs," said William Randolph Hearst Jr. recently. The Mirror was one of those dogs, and although the Chief knew it, he did not seem to care. "Dear Arthur," he wrote in a now-famous memo to Arthur Brisbane, who was then the Mirror's publisher: "You are now getting out the worst newspaper...