Word: randolphs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Randolph Churchill, plump columnist-son of Winston, surveyed Manhattan, recalled its aspect three years before, reported to his readers changes that struck him most: women weren't as good-looking as they used to be, but necklines plunged deeper. Analyst Churchill (whose occasional companion has been ex-Best-Dressed Mrs. William Rhinelander Stewart) explained that the great beauties were all in Florida at the moment...
Kate Greenaway owes much of her fame to Color-Printer Edmund Evans, who discovered and sponsored her, and engraved her drawings. Another of Evans' discoveries was Randolph Caldecott, born in 1846, whose centenary was also celebrated last week. Kate Greenaway envied Caldecott's wit. Most illustrators were more inclined to envy Caldecott's sure sense of movement, which set a new standard for fast action on paper. His books (John Gilpin's Ride, Three Jovial Huntsmen, etc.) were as boyish and gay as Greenaway's were girlish and sweet...
...William Randolph Hearst, 82, seemed to be getting all set. Columnist Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. snooped around San Simeon, Calif., reported workmen building "an atomic cellar for the stooped old gent to disappear into when the next great war comes along...
...Appointed Randolph Paul, ex-Treasury tax expert, to be $10,000-a-year presidential assistant; named Major General John H. Hilldring, regular Army director of Civil Affairs, to be an Assistant Secretary of State; Delaware attorney Josiah Marvel Jr. to be Minister to Denmark...
Divorced. Woolworth Donahue, 33, idle-rich grandson and heir of Frank Winfield Woolworth (F. W. Woolworth & Co.); by Gretchen Wilson Donahue, 32, ex-wife of John Randolph Hearst; after six years of marriage, three of separation, no children; in Las Vegas...