Word: randolphs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Paul Cesar Helleu, 67, French artist, famed for his etchings of beautiful women; in Paris. He etched Mrs. Edward H. Harriman, Mrs. Ogden Mills, Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, and said he could not be persuaded to do the portrait of an ugly woman. "It would be too boring...
...William Randolph Hearst: "In ankle-length bloomers of white chiffon embroidered with silver, diamond-studded feather headdress, a bodice of brilliants with emerald and diamond shoulder-straps, anklets of diamonds and a sweeping Oriental train, I last week descended a golden staircase in the Bath and Tennis Club, Palm Beach, Fla. Up leaped one Rafaelo Diaz,* in white satin coat and silver trousers, from a throne surrounded by dancing girls. He embraced me and sang an aria from La Gioconda. It was a pageant during a Persian ball which newsgatherers reported as 'most brilliant of the season...
...other addition to the schedule is a game with Randolph Macon, to be played on April 19 in the course of the Southern trip. The only-previous same with the Southern institution was in 1906 and was won by Harvard...
Some people will write almost anything for money; William Randolph Hearst will pay them for it and publish it. In the March Cosmopolitan, Mrs. Elizabeth Jaffray, onetime White House housekeeper (TIME, Nov. 15), tells in one breath that President Harding used to drink whiskey with his friends in the White House after the 18th Amendment was passed; in the next breath that she put her arms around Mrs. Harding after the President's death, while the widow murmured: "Oh, Mrs. Jaffray...
...John Randolph loved books, horses, and dogs. . . . Returning home one evening he found that one of his most precious books had been gnawed by his favorite dog Beppo. Instead of chastising the dog he simply took up the fragments of the book and wrote on one of the remaining leaves: 'Beppo aid this when he was drunk.' As to the speech of the Senator from Alabama, I can say: 'He made his speech when he was excited.' " [Laughter and applause in the galleries...