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...Engaged in a short, bitter debate over charges made by Negro A. Philip Randolph, head of the Sleeping-Car Porters, that A.F. of L. discriminated against Negroes in defense employment...
...Junior and the Gold Coast was really fourteen carat, Snowball came to Cambridge and tried his hand at laundry, pressing, and punch-concocting. In those days, the great Club controllers like Chase Mellon, young Barney Baruch, et al, inhabited 6 Holyoke Place (now a parking lot), Claverly, Randolph, and Westmorley. "Then, they went more for the straight stuff with a little ginger alc or soda," reflects the alcoholic expert. "They had pride in holding their own whiskeys. Now that the punch has come in, they start right off with the idea of getting drunk...
...small, redhaired, freckled Spencer Churchill, W. L., as he was known on the register, attended the school 50 years ago the Harrow community did not entirely approve of him. Some of the masters and the more model boys felt that he was scarcely the son of his father", Lord Randolph Churchill, then at the peak of his Parliamentary career. Young Churchill was careless with the school's traditions, which have the flexibility of the Swiss Alps. His marks were only middling and he disliked the classics, then the sine qua non of Harrovian scholarship...
...enlisted men, however lonely, would enjoy stepping out with a lieutenant, that rank is limited to older Belles, who mobilize the girls at San Antonio's Municipal Auditorium, whence they are dispatched by bus to the scene of operations: the Army Y.M.C.A., Fort Sam Houston, Brooks and Randolph Fields, etc. If a Belle is absent on duty nights, she is likely to lose her red-white-&-blue merit badge, be drummed out of the ranks...
...winter of 1935, six months after his first professional match, New York boxing promoters already had their eyes on him. One of them was shrewd Mike Jacobs, Broadway ticket speculator, who was looking for an up-&-coming heavyweight to fight giant Primo Camera for the benefit of Mrs. William Randolph Hearst's pet charity, the New York Milk Fund...