Word: randolphs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...survey for the Des Moines Register and Tribune led to a bigger & better rotogravure section and, eventually, to Look magazine. Another sold the Chicago Tribune's Bertie McCormick on the public demand for fat Sunday editions. A third, for William Randolph Hearst, led to the birth of the first comic-strip advertising and a job for George Gallup as head of the research division in the Manhattan advertising firm of Young & Rubicam...
Devil Anse Hatfield was a tall bearded man with round shoulders and a slight stoop, grey eyes, bushy eyebrows, a hooked nose. He was the father of 12 children. Randolph McCoy was 20 years older, tall, kindly, broad-shouldered, with sullen grey eyes and a full beard and mustache. He had 13 children. Devil Anse built his cabin on the edge of West Virginia, at a point where Peter Creek flows into Tug Fork. Across the Tug in Kentucky, up Blackberry Creek to Hatfield Branch, then up the steep mountain slopes to the ridge at Turkeyfoot-seven or eight miles...
...feeling between the Hatfield and McCoy families reached back before the Civil War. But the real trouble began in 1873, when Floyd Hatfield (Anse's cousin) appropriated a roaming sow and her litter. Old Randolph McCoy said the pigs were his, and had Floyd Hatfield brought into court. The jury was evenly balanced -six McCoys, six Hatfields. But the judge was a Hatfield, and one of the McCoy jurors (married to a Hatfield) wavered. That did it: the Hatfields won the verdict; the hills got a feud that lasted two generations...
...Many Died? Author Jones tells the long story in chronicled detail: the disappearances (till bodies turned up later); the killings in "justified self-defense"; the kidnaping and executions. One day in 1882 the Hatfields intercepted seven peace officers who were taking some of Old Randolph McCoy's sons to jail for the knifing of a Hatfield. The youngest McCoy began to cry. Said Wall Hatfield gruffly, "I'm not going to hurt you." But next day the wounded Hatfield died. His kinsmen turned on the hostages. The bodies of Tolbert, Phamer and young Randolph McCoy were found tied...
Divorced. William Randolph Hearst Jr., 41, most capable of the five not-so-capable Hearst boys, and publisher of the New York Journal-American; by second wife Lorelle McCarver Swisher Moore Hearst, 39, his onetime women's editor, a onetime Follies girl; after 15 years of marriage, no children; in Gooding, Idaho...