Word: randolphs
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Bombardier (RKO-Radio) is a Hollywood salute to the Norden bomb sight, which is at one point tenderly compared with the goose that laid the golden egg. Before Pearl Harbor, Major Davis (Pat O'Brien) believes in the bomb sight. His friend Captain Oliver (Randolph Scott) scorns it. At their New Mexican training field, Davis' pretty secretary (Anne Shirley) romantically if irrelevantly pads out the footage. The bomb sight argument is finally settled in a night raid on Tokyo, when Captain Oliver compensates for his former skepticism by making a Japanese aircraft factory (and himself) a fiery...
...RANDOLPH E. PAUL...
...TIME, May 17, you printed the findings of Stanford University's Paul Randolph Farnsworth in a poll taken among the students of that university, putting before them the question: "Who, named in order, are the greatest composers in the history of music?" This week I put the same question before 500 students of the University of Washington; here is the result...
Musical reputations, and why, have been a source of innocent fascination to Stanford University's violin-playing Psychologist Paul Randolph Farnsworth. Last week he released the results of a poll he had taken of two very different groups of U.S. citizens: 1) 500 Stanford students, 2) learned members of the American Musicological Society. The question: "Who, named in order, are the greatest composers in the history of music?" The answers showed striking agreement as to the first four names-and then chaos...
...William Randolph Hearst, monarch of a communications dynasty (16 newspapers, eight magazines, four radio stations, one news service, one feature syndicate, one photo service), art collector, exponent of yellow journalism, worshiper at circulation's shrine, reporter, reformer, politico, columnist and multimillionaire, was 80 last week. For a man of his means and mightiness he celebrated modestly...