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Divorced. George Randolph Hearst, 37, eldest son of Publisher William Randolph Hearst; by Lorna Pratt Velie Hearst; in Los Angeles...
...Randolph Field's Major Harold L. Mace, directing plane movements by radio, felt his hide tighten. In his earphones came the voice of a cadet pilot reporting that he was almost out of gas. "Look around and see if you can find a good field to land in," radioed Major Mace, with soothing professional calm. There was no reply. "What's your position?" the Major asked, with less calm. A puzzled voice came in his earphones. "I'm on the ramp in front of Hangar C, right here at Randolph Field...
Timely, this-in the House on March 5, 1806, Randolph affirmed that "the surest way to prevent war is not to fear it." Q.E.D., maybe...
...Stung by Randolph's crack. Henry Clay challenged him to a duel. Clay's second bullet made a hole in Randolph's white flannel wrapper, whereupon Randolph gallantly waived his own second shot, offered to shake hands. Clay shook...
...remark about the empyreumatical mackerel (TIME, May 26), Mr. Fly was on the right scent, but he failed to tell us anything about his authority for the quotation. Crabbed, although highly interesting, John Randolph of Roanoke shot it at Henry ("Mill-boy of the Slashes") Clay. His exact language seems to be in dispute. Bartlett puts it: "So brilliant, yet so corrupt, which, like a rotten mackerel by moonlight, shines and stinks." Personally one better likes the version employed in the life of Randolph, in The American Statesmen series of biographies: "Like a mackerel in the moonlight, he shined...