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...Randolph A. Hearst , class...
...heir of the famous Hearst newspaper empire, who served as the chair of the company for 23 years, Randolph A. Hearst, class of 1938, died Dec. 18 of a stroke...
...Randolph A. Hearst was the youngest son of William Randolph Hearst. Despite his father's reluctance to entrust his sons with control of the family business, he became the member of the family in charge of financial matters...
...notion of personal responsibility took another shot in the chops last week when Matthew F. Kennelly, a federal district judge in Chicago, ruled that Elizabeth Randolph ("Randy") Roach, 47, should not serve up to 18 months in prison for embezzling $241,061 from her former employer. Instead, the judge sentenced the defendant to five years' probation, six months of weekends confined to her home, six weeks of incarceration in a Salvation Army work-release center and a $30,000 fine. Lawyers on both sides of the case said it was the first time a shopaholic defense has triumphed...
...What difference does a mother make? Rearrange a few biographies. Suppose Nixon had been raised by a mother more along the lines of, say, Winston Churchill's - Jennie Randolph, no saint but a fairly negligent absentee? Would that have made Nixon Churchillian? Suppose, at the other extreme, that Nixon had been dealt the hand (a straight flush) of little Franklin Roosevelt. Suppose Nixon had grown up - not in his bleakly struggling Whittier, California, with the gas station and the saint and the angry, punitive Dad - but as a darling of the Hudson River gentry, doted upon as an only child...