Word: randolphs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...issue of TIME there was an article about the [new] Hearst comic strip. [William Randolph Hearst] speaks of the boy Dick being the son of the keeper of the Liberty Statue. It is not the Liberty Statue; it is the Statue of Liberty. He is not the keeper; he is superintendent. My name is not Dick...
...Lord Randolph Churchill, as Secretary of State for India in 1885, ordered a British expeditionary force to depose Burma's mad King Theebaw and formally join the country, which had been under British influence for 60 years, to the Empire...
Absent Treatment. For its past 21 years, Town & Country has been unobtrusively owned by William Randolph Hearst. Slight, worldly-wise Editor Harry Bull, like Hearst, went to St. Paul's School and Harvard, won fame of a sort in 1924 when he bested the then Prince of Wales in a pillow-fight aboard the Berengaria, returning from Europe. He worked briefly for TIME, moved to Town & Country from the late International Studio in 1931, became editor in 1935. Owner Hearst has never darkened Bull's editorial door, or given Town & Country's small staff of 13 anything...
...readers, spend more time over their comic strips than over their editorial pages. The late Captain Joseph M. Patterson guided his comics (Orphan Annie, Dick Tracy, Terry, etc.) as cunningly as his anti-Roosevelt campaigns, built a monster circulation (now 2,400.000) for his New York Daily News. William Randolph Hearst was one of the daddies of comics (his early Yellow Kid strip led to the phrase "yellow journalism"). Last week the trade paper Editor & Publisher, reporting the launching of Hearst's newest strip, Dick's Adventures in Dreamland, dipped into the year-long correspondence over it that...
...could send, the business expanded so rapidly that she finally had to hire two artists to help her turn out some 800-odd designs this year. That's still not enough, because her customers often insist on buying ties by the dozen. Among her strangely mixed clientele: William Randolph Hearst Sr., Frank Sinatra, Noel Coward, David Dubinsky and Harry Truman, who once failed at selling ties himself...