Word: randolph
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Randolph L. Williams '65 complained that the line at the depot was so long he was "15 minutes late getting to my dining hall job at Adams." And all over the Yard long lines and slow service were reported...
...himself, one for his hat-to stare at a blonde chorine named Marion Davies. He already had a wife, five sons, a gold mine, seven magazines, ten newspapers, more than a million acres of land-and now he wanted the chorine. Getting her was as easy for William Randolph Hearst as hailing a taxicab. Remarkably, she remained his mistress for 34 years...
...weeks after his death, she impulsively married Captain Horace G. Brown, sometime skipper of an oceangoing tanker and former cop, who looked very much like William Randolph Hearst. The marriage almost ended within a year as Brown began making a nuisance of himself: he pushed her into the pool, his monkey bit her, and he let the air out of the tires of visitors' automobiles. She decided to ignore him and became absorbed with real estate interests, acquiring office buildings in Manhattan, Palm Springs' Desert Inn, and 360,000 acres in Mexico...
...William Randolph Hearst is dead-as dead as yesterday's tabloid. But his name, like a faded headline, is a yellowing memento of the Yellow Age of U.S. journalism, when the potentate of the penny press sometimes seemed to wield more power than the President, when live bullets flew and dead bodies fell in circulation wars, and a newspaper was often the last place anybody looked for news...
Hacking along Los Angeles' Bel Air Country Club course with a foursome that included Actor Randolph Scott, Lawyer Richard Nixon, 48, watched bug-eyed as his five-iron shot on the 155-yard third hole plopped home for a hole in one. "This," exulted the former Vice President, "is the greatest thrill of my life-even better than being elected...