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When Hearst Artist Frederic Remington, cabled from Cuba in 1897 that "there will be no war," William Randolph Hearst cabled back: "You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war." Last week the aging (84) Lord of San Simeon was out to prove that his hand had not lost its touch. This time it was not Spain but Russia on which Hearst had declared...
...illustrations show that art for children reached its peak in 19th Century England. Walt Disney himself would need a lot of film to match the action in Randolph Caldecott's Panjandrum Picture Book (published in 1885). And Kate Greenaway's grave little watercolors for Under the Window and Marigold Garden are still as modern-to children's eyes-as they were when Critic John Ruskin devoted a lecture at Oxford to "The Place of Kate Greenaway in Modern...
...Coldblooded murder" was Randolph Churchill's phrase for the execution of the top Nazis. Winston's far-flinging lecturer-son was now talking in Australia. "They were not hanged for starting the war but for losing it," he pursued. "If we tried the starters, why not put Stalin in the dock?" But he was not afraid of the Russians, said Randolph. "The people who scare me are the British and Americans, who . . . are now letting all they won slip through their butter-fingers...
...Right Not to Work. The news came from Cleveland's sweltering Public Hall, where the I.T.U. last week held its 89th national convention. Mild-eyed President Woodruff Randolph,*55, laid the new policy on the line: the union would obey the letter of the law, but it would as soon give up the ghost as the closed shop it had won from the bulk of the U.S. press (some exceptions: the open-shop Los Angeles Times, the Philadelphia Bulletin, John H. Perry's Florida chain...
...Randolph earnestly counseled "patience and more patience" to avoid strikes. He carefully coached the delegates on how to act if a strike were called: "No law says you must tell the employer why you are striking. You can strike for any reason at all, or for no reason at all. . . . We only want to do what we have been doing for more than 100 years. We can assure [employers] that we will do what comes naturally...