Word: randolphs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days when it was proper for U.S. newsmen to be on good terms with Adolf Hitler, William Randolph Hearst's high-strung, highly paid and highly touted Karl H. von Wiegand led the pack. Publicity handouts called him the "personal acquaintance of Chancellor Adolf Hitler for more than 17 years [who] has had more interviews and discussions with the German Chancellor than any other American. . . ." When Hitler swept across France in 1940, Von Wiegand, with his thick spectacles and his gold-handled walking stick, was flown by the Germans to Paris...
...started in the Senator's home town, Lynchburg. There, Dr. Robert Douthat Meade, professor of history at Randolph-Macon Women's College, had written an article discussing Carter Glass's long absence from the Senate, pointing out that this left Virginia with only half its proper representation. When the last measured sentence had been written, Dr. Meade sent off copies of the article, for sale, to newspapers throughout Virginia...
...once, breezy, brassy Lou Ruppel got more than he bargained for. When he christened Chicago ''Dirty Shirt Town" (TiME, Jan. 15. 1944), he not only aroused Chicagoans, as he had planned, but alarmed his boss, William Randolph Hearst. Last week Herald-American Executive Editor Ruppel answered a summons to San Simeon. The Chief was worried about offending too many Chicago people. Ruppel later described his visit...
Hearst is making money again. The greatest vegetable growth in publishing history-which William Randolph Hearst watered with his father's fortune, wrapped in his country's flag and dunged with an unerring taste for the lowest vulgar denominator-is once more full of sap, and blossoming with green and glossy banknotes. Soon the "Hearst empire" expects to be out of hock. From Maine to California last week came the evidence...
...only one due each Saturday, for the next three weeks. Oh, happy, happy, fun-time. The recent snow has again given the boys (accent on the first syllable) on the fourth deck new life. The not-to-be-divulged exploits of Kirby G. (for Gadabout) Pickle and Randolph C. for a middle name that he won't discuss) Phillips took a turn for the better after our return shavers left the Boston Buddies Club . . . little hot around here boys...