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PAMELA A. VINCENT Randolph, Mass...
...highest-ranking Negro officer in any service-and son of the first Negro general, Benjamin O. Davis-rates high with Negro servicemen. So do such moderates as the N.A.A.C.P.'s Roy Wilkins, U.S. Solicitor General (and longtime civil rights strategist) Thurgood Marshall, Labor Leader A. Philip Randolph (who directed the 1963 March on Washington), U.N. UnderSecretary Ralph Bunche and Baseball Great Jackie Robinson. Negroes in Viet Nam show the same respect for Southern-born General William C. Westmoreland as do white G.I.s. "His position on civil rights was a matter of public record even before he came to Viet...
Returning to Hollywood in 1958, Coburn saddled up for a Randolph Scott western called Ride Lonesome, which type-cast him as a heavy for the next seven years. In The Magnificent Seven, he spoke only 14 words, but his chilling portrayal of a sadistic, knife-throwing cowboy won him meatier roles, and eventually a chance to be Flint-both off-screen and on. The one thing he cannot abide, however, is the amorous women who are always sidling up to him in the street. "They don't see me-they see a guy named Flint. That...
Having lost six campaigns for the House of Commons, Randolph Churchill, 55, is understandably grouchy about the British system of electioneering. "It's degrading," grumbled Winnie's son in a London television interview, bemoaning the blood, sweat and tears involved in being selected by party officials to stand for the House. "They look at your wife, if you've got one," explained Randolph, who has two ex-wives, "and you lose votes if you don't. If you do have a wife, they look at her hat, they look at her legs, they look...
...more than the soldierly bearing that carried him through life. He taught himself, imperfectly, the art of poetry and, with more success, how to write taut and economical prose. Then he squandered the education on venomous hack work for West Coast literary journals and as a columnist for William Randolph Hearst's San Francisco Examiner. He never wrote anything longer than a short story; he was not in the habit of writing a paragraph when just a word would do. The Devil's Dictionary, a lexicon of Bierce's scorn for mankind and all its institutions...