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...discontinued football schedule on a formal basis next fall. According to the official release, the Orange and Black expects to play eight regular games, many of them against her old rivals with whom relations had been broken off for the duration. The bulletin also disclosed the hiring of Charlle Randolph as future full time gridiron coach...
...Youngest: Edmund Randolph, who took the job under George Washington in 1794, when...
Sadie Thompson (adapted from John Colton's and Clemence Randolph's Rain by Howard Dietz and Rouben Mamoulian; music & lyrics by Vernon Duke and Mr. Dietz; produced by A. P. Waxman) is more frost than Rain. Behind the famous play of the missionary who brought a scarlet woman to God only to be himself ensnared by the Devil there was a steady theatrical drive. In Sadie Thompson that drive is halted by every song, every dance, every stage procession...
...struggle was bitter (he once paraphrased John Randolph, saying that radio management reminded him "of a dead mackerel in the moonlight which both shines and stinks," and management replied in kind). The fight ended with a blockbuster which the Supreme Court dropped on the industry in 1943, ruling that FCC had the power to enforce its regulations on the radio industry. The sum of these regulations was the freeing of the 900-odd U.S. stations from total network domination (TIME...
...Pontius Pilatism." Negroes, says A. Philip Randolph, President of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, are learning that neither Democrats nor Republicans can safely be relied on for help. So far as the Negro is concerned, they are simply "two peas in a pod . . . tweedledee and tweedledum." Negroes are also losing their fear of being terrorized and beaten in retaliation for becoming politically active. "Time and again," says Professor Sterling A. Brown, "I heard the anecdote ... of the new sort of hero-the Negro soldier who, having taken all he could stand, shed his coat, faced his persecutors and said...