Word: randolphs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What actually kills a man in an airplane crash? In some cases the cause of death may be his own internal organs. Reason: the impact turns them into internal missiles. So reported an Army doctor (Captain George Marvin Hass of the Army Air Forces School of Aviation Medicine at Randolph Field, Texas) last fortnight to the Aero Medical Association's meeting at Cincinnati...
...week's end the Administration was ready to concede defeat. First sign of collapse: the Treasury's Tax Expert Randolph Evernghim Paul prepared to resign at the first graceful opportunity; and failing that, just to resign...
Dour, diffident Henry Morgenthau Jr. sat in the House Ways & Means Committee room one morning last week munching raisins. Beside him also munching raisins sat his chief tax expert, small, dun-colored Randolph Paul. Now & then they both drank water from a cone of paper cups piled beside a big water jug, while a battery of grey young Treasury experts, without benefit of raisins and water, periodically scrabbled for documents in accordion-sized brief cases. Morgenthau & Co. needed their vitamins: they had been up most of the night before, putting the finishing touches on the Treasury's recommendations...
...Diana (Mrs. Duncan Sandys), 34 is a second officer in the WRENS, has a three-month old daughter;Randolph, 32, is a captain in the British Army, last reported in Sicily; Sarah (Mrs. Vic Oliver), 28 refused a film offer and became a flying officer in the W.A.A.F...
...Rockefeller once paid $500 to hear her sing it. In 1912, at a Weber & Fields reunion, when Lillian was 51 and over 170 lb., she was asked to do it again. As she broke, monumentally, into Come Down, My Evenin' Star, an audience including Arthur Brisbane, William Randolph Hearst, Diamond Jim Brady, Condé Nast and Charles Dana Gibson blubbered frankly over its boiled shirts...