Word: randolphs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Randolph Churchill, Winston's bumptious lecturer-son, got in more trouble with his new Lincoln. Last fortnight a wheel had come off while he was doing 50 in Indiana. This time the trouble was in Connecticut. He got a parking ticket; but that was fixed when it was discovered who he was-a guest of the city of Derby. Then he shot off toward Manhattan. A state trooper, who said it had taken him eight miles to catch up, stopped Randolph outside Westport, pinched him for doing 80. Trial...
...VOKS). Out of Mombasa, British East Africa, bound for New York, steamed a merchant ship captained by Jonathan M. Wainwright V, the General's son, whose charges included an ostrich, a wildcat, a ringtailed monkey, four pythons and six hyenas. Across the U.S. on a lecture tour streaked Randolph Churchill, who was having hair-raising luck. While he was doing 50 on an Indiana highway a wheel flew off, but the car somehow remained right side...
...live down here in Texas and our bees are so big we use 'em for primary trainers at Randolph Field. But sting a man four times? Don't let Sam feed you that! They only sting once, in the orthodox manner, and then quietly...
Died. Admiral Russell Randolph Waesche (rhymes with "may she"), 60, the Coast Guard's commandant (1936-45) and first full admiral, who saw his "Hooligan Navy" multiply more than tenfold and become a powerful auxiliary of World War II invasion forces; of a heart ailment; in Bethesda...
...considers ex-Harvardman William Randolph Hearst "the biggest hypocrite alive" for his chain's campaign against so-called smutty literature, in view of the sexsational stories and headlines featured by his papers. Isenstadt believes that the next target of Mr. Hearst and the censors will be Charles Jackson's study of homosexuality, "The Fall of Valor." The novel is prominently displayed in the ULBE and will so continue, says Mr. I, despite Hearst's "nasty campaign...