Word: randolphs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During his senior year, young Gruening got a temporary job on William Randolph Hearst's Boston American, stayed for a year. To please his father, he took his M.D. degree, but he returned, immediately, to journalism. To the perplexity of his fellow reporters, all of whom thought it would be wonderful to be a rich doctor, Gruening preferred writing editorials for the Boston Herald at $27 a week...
...chair in the sitting room. Cried he: "Now, who wants Loelia?" (the recently divorced Duchess of Westminster). Bidding was sluggish, and the ex-Duchess finally went for seven guineas. Blonde Princess Ali Khan, the Aga Khan's daughter-in-law, did better at a reported 15 guineas. Randolph Churchill, who could not stay late because he had to dash off to a regimental dinner, bought up several girls and later disposed of them at a profit-which, of course, went to charity too. One of his transactions involved 27-year-old Kathleen, Marchioness of Hartington (née Kennedy...
Summer plans were also outlined by President Conant at the same time, which find him away from the College for most of the term. During July he intends to spend as much time as he can at his hot weather retreat at Randolph, New Hampshire, coming into his office when necessary...
Bertie v. Dante. Like William Randolph Hearst, the Tribune's Robert Rutherford McCormick is more easily caricatured than portrayed. The sharpest shaft ever aimed at him-that he possessed "the greatest mind of the 14th Century" - did Bertie, as well as Dante, a disservice.* So have the oversimplified pictures of McCormick as a feudal lord of the manor, aping the English aristocrats he professes to detest; as a fascist menace; as "Col. McCosmic," the frustrated military strategist; as a crackpot Midas...
...Princeton's president, served part of one term as governor of New Jersey. Twelve months before he went to Trenton, probably not one U.S. voter in ten knew much more about him than that he had kicked up some kind of a row on the Princeton campus. William Randolph Hearst scorned him as "the Professor . . . perched on his little hillock of expediency ... a perfect jackrabbit of politics . . . ears erect and nostrils distended . . . ready to run and double in any direction...