Word: randolphs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Damon Runyon got his first newspaper job when he was a gawky 16-year-old Kansas kid. He has written about 80,000,000 words since then. Some of them were very good. As William Randolph Hearst's top sports-byliner, he could make a silk purse out of a cauliflower ear. When Collier's ballyhooed a Runyon short story on its cover, newsstand sales sometimes went up 60,000 copies. But last week, at 65, Damon Runyon looked back at his career, and said he wished he had been playing Pagliacci instead...
...greatest ovation in my 50 years of concert going," said Mrs. William Randolph Hearst Sr. Said Jeritza: "A rabbit could have scared me away. I went to the post like a race horse which wears blinders. My heart was going boom, boom, boom...
...want to fly? There must be cogent reasons, and not all as lyrical as Icarus'. One answer has been given by the Army Air Forces' Colonel R. C. Anderson, who during the war had an unexcelled psychiatrist's-eye view as chief of neuropsychiatry at Randolph Field's School of Aviation Medicine. He offered his diagnosis before the Aero Medical Convention in Chicago. Some highlights...
...Murders to Heart Mends. Elizabeth Gilmer got her biggest break in 1901, when William Randolph Hearst lured her to Manhattan. She carried a wad of "get-home money" in her stocking, for her first six weeks in the big city. But she stayed, to become the greatest sob sister of her day. From the Harry K. Thaw trial to the Hall-Mills case, no big murder was complete without her. In 1920 she tired of it, told her city editor that if she ever covered another murder it would be his, and flounced off to New Orleans to concentrate...
Frederick Randolph Grace...