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...Captain Randolph Churchill, son of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, stopped in the U.S. on roundabout wartime route to England from Egypt. In a Manhattan hotel, his face bruised and his back in a brace because of recent injuries on the North African front, he told reporters: "The English have not been as clever as the enemy in this war. We have been enthusiastic amateurs as compared to professional military men. But we are learning fast and we are going...
...list included William Randolph Hearst's friend William Griffin, violently anti-British publisher of the New York Enquirer; wild-eyed, red-haired Mrs. Elizabeth (Red Network) Billing, Gerald B. Winrod, publisher of the Defender, notorious preacher of racial and religious intolerance; Prescott Freeze Dennett, organizer of the Islands for War Debts Committee, operator of a one-man isolationist news service (an Army draftee, he was arrested in a St. Louis barracks); Nazi Agent George Sylvester Viereck, now in prison for failing to disclose in full his connection with the Nazi Government...
...friend of William Randolph Hearst, whom he visits at San Simeon and with whom he sometimes exchanges public telegrams on public questions on the front pages of Hearst newspapers. Hearst likes him so well that his papers have started several abortive booms: "Griffin-for-Mayor," "Griffin-for-Senator," and report his comings & goings as if he were somebody. Most of Griffin's trips have been to Eire, where he made himself popular by clamoring for Irish independence. When he launched the Enquirer in 1926 he became one of the most violent Anglophobes and isolationists in the U.S. His paper...
...would split FCC into two divisions and strip the chairman of much of his authority. His major opponents are CBS and NBC, which consider Fly prejudiced and think he wants to reform them out of business; the National Association of Broadcasters, which Fly has delighted to compare to John Randolph's dead mackerel in the moonlight ("It shines and stinks"), and newspaper owners, whom Fly is frankly trying to keep out of the radio business for fear of a news monopoly...
...bargain was offered in Manhattan: William Randolph Hearst's 12th-Century Spanish monastery, tastefully packaged in 10,400 crates, ready for delivery, at $19,000. Gimbel Brothers knocked it down from $50,000, for a quick sale. It cost the Lord of San Simeon more than $500,000 to get it here from Spain...