Word: randolphs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nearly a month, Moscow's censors had hardly touched blue pencil to any correspondent's copy (TIME, Nov. 19). But Randolph Churchill, the conceited son of a great man, was still being censored...
...Demobbed" from his father's old regiment, the 4th Queen's Own Hussars, and unseated from Parliament at the last election, Randolph at 34 was still regarded by his friends as "promising." His latest fling was in an old Churchillian field: journalism. United Feature Syndicate had signed him to a one-year contract, sold his column to 80 papers in the U.S. and abroad, told him Europe was his beat. His first col umns were windy pieces about Eire, and under anyone else's name would hardly have been printed. When they appeared, Randolph was in Moscow...
...medical discharge from the Army, Igor Cassini gushed in a recent column: "Peace, it's wonderful! What a change from the muddy boots, the shivering cold, the caked blood." Better times were coming: "We're in for an era of mad spending and fun-making. . . . Mrs. William Randolph Hearst Sr. entertained at a gala dinner...
There was John Taylor of Caroline, farmer, Jeffersonian theorist and author of An Enquiry into the Principles and Policy of the Government of the United States, which John Randolph considered "a monument of the force and weakness of the human mind," and Mr. Schlesinger considers great political writing...
Kidd (Charles Laughton) buries a treasure chest, sails a King's ship into Madagascar waters, knocks off a number of chiseling colleagues, and at long last gets the halter while young lovers Randolph Scott and Barbara Britton make for the altar. All this and more is accomplished without teeth-clenched daggers, plank-walkings, or hoistings of the Jolly Roger. But this new version has not enough energy and inventiveness to take the place of the old, dependable pirate-movie clich...