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...cost of living has jumped about 25% at Oxford. The Oxonian who does nothing but study can barely get by on ?250 ($ 1,000 a year). To have an occasional tea party, an after-theater drink in the Randolph Hotel bar, or an infrequent meal at White's (the expensive new restaurant on The High), he would need at least ?350. The prewar prodigal who gave breakfast parties in his rooms, lunches with sherry, champagne, plovers' eggs and caviar, has gone with the food & drink...
...Denver, Columnist Randolph Churchill, who had attracted attention to himself by reporting a bathroom conversation with a plumber (TIME, Feb. 10), now bravely faced a platform duel with a carpenter. From New Jersey the carpenter wired a challenge to a "debate on the merits of the British Empire." Winston's son referred the matter to his lecture manager...
...Denver hotel on a lecture tour, Columnist Randolph Churchill encountered some faulty plumbing-to his personal annoyance but patriotic satisfaction. He complained, later reported his conversation with the plumber sent to fix matters...
Columnist Randolph Churchill, however, still had his. In Chesterfield County, Va., Winston's rambunctious son (who lost a wheel doing 50 in Indiana last November) was fined $50 and costs for doing 75-to-80. With the fine he had paid for doing 80 in Connecticut, that made $105 that Visitor Randolph had contributed to U.S. communities...
Caniff's new five-year contract with Marshall Field calls for a $2,000-a-week minimum. The Field organization was not equipped to sell the new strip nationally, so left-winger Field, who shudders at William Randolph Hearst on his editorial page, made a deal with the old lord of San Simeon. For selling Steve Canyon, Hearst's King Features Syndicate got first rights to run the new strip in all Hearst papers outside Chicago (including the tabloid Mirror in New York, instead of Field's small...