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Died. George Rothwell Brown, 80, longtime Washington political correspondent and a Hearst-chain analyst for 30 years, who wrote a front-page column in the Washington Post from 1917 to 1929, covered every national political convention since 1908 except the 1932 Democratic gathering, during which William Randolph Hearst Sr. assigned him to persuade John Nance Garner to yield his votes to F.D.R.; of a stroke; in Chicago...
That doughty old warrior of Negro labor rights, President Asa Philip Randolph of the Sleeping Car Porters, took the rostrum at the annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in St. Paul last week to blast liberals and labor alike for the color bar that keeps Negroes out of countless union locals. Chief offenders: locals in the building trades and, south of the Mason-Dixon Line, steel, textiles and Walter Reuther's United Auto Workers. "The entire labor movement bears guilt for the existence of racial disadvantage to workers of color," said Randolph...
NEGRO LABOR COUNCIL was organized in Detroit by A. Philip Randolph, president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, to represent 1.5 million Negroes in U.S. unions. Council will fight inside A.F.L.-C.I.O. to end segregation and discrimination in labor movement...
...Hollywood Producer Leland (South Pacific) Hayward, 57, showed how he earned the description given him by a friend. A few hours after he was divorced by his third wife, Nancy ("Slim") Hayward, in Las Vegas, he married Pamela Churchill, 40, ex-wife of Sir Winston's fustian son, Randolph. Pamela, daughter of Baron Digby, had been reported friendly since her divorce from Randolph with a Rothschild, a Fiat executive and a U.S. TV oracle. Says a (female) friend: "She is a quiet, appealing temptress with a soft, lovely voice, who plays up enchantingly to men. She just...
While he lived, William Randolph Hearst was a hang-the-cost sort of press lord, who treasured his newspapers as though they were rare and lovely gems. But after his death in 1951, control of his empire passed to a businessmen's trusteeship far more interested in profits than in jewel collecting. In recent years, Hearst Corporation President Richard E. Berlin and General Manager Harold G. Kern have kept the bill collector from knocking too loudly by trading off, every now and then, one of the less profitable baubles from the old chain. In 1956, they sold the Chicago...