Word: randolphs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bevan, who delights in baiting the Churchill bull. Question No. 45: "To ask the Prime Minister whether he is aware that a letter appeared in the Evening Standard . . . written by a serving officer attached to an intelligence unit in North Africa. ..." The officer: Winston's only son, Major Randolph Churchill...
...letter, hot-headed Randolph Churchill denounced the "pharisaical attitude" of "certain French elements in London" (i.e., Fighting French). He also deplored "the widespread tendency to assume that any Frenchman who had occupied an official position under the Vichy government must be a traitor or possessed of a Fascist mentality...
...typographical fireworks could only be conjectured by Angelenos. But definitely not in the realm of conjecture were these facts: 1) two years ago Scenarist Mankiewicz had collaborated with Actor-Producer Orson Welles on the script for Citizen Kane, a picture which irresistibly reminded many of the career of William Randolph Hearst; 2) the film reportedly made Publisher Hearst seethe...
Instead the Rangers are picked for intelligence and endurance. Like Commando recruits, about 50% of them fail the course and are sent back to their old units. The survivors fit no common pattern. Commander of the Rangers now in training is slight, friendly Major Randolph Milholland, 36, onetime cost accountant from Cumberland, Md. One of his captains, Lloyd Marr, 31, of Lamesa, Tex., trained in civilian life by working up statistics for the U.S. Treasury Department. In commando training, bulk and muscle are assets. But the training-wise instructors know they are not indispensable. A stout heart counts most...
Your friend, Randolph Ridgely." EDWARD F. CORSON, M.D. Plymouth Meeting...