Word: randolphs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...William Randolph Hearst turned 86. He stayed quietly in his home in Beverly Hills, while all five of his sons gathered round for the occasion...
Shepard also coached a Chinese entry in the Far Eastern Olympics, and the Guilford and Randolph-Macon College teams. Last year he was a member of the U. S. Basketball Committee for the Olympics. During the summer he scouts for the Cincinnati Reds...
...started when Cinemactor Randolph Scott and a movie troupe went to Death Valley last fall to shoot scenes for The Walking Hills, and Ranger Stan was assigned as technical adviser. Between takes Stan would haul out his guitar and twang some of the songs he has composed while out on ranger trips. Scott & Co. told him he was great, that he should sell his songs in Hollywood...
With just enough changes to avoid libel suits, "Citizen Kane" is the story of William Randolph Hearst. As a skeleton for his plot, Welles uses the interviews of a reporter for a Luce-like organization, who is trying to find out the meaning of the great man's last word. Thinking that this word, "rosebud," might be the key to the whole life of Charles Foster Kane, the reporter speaks to Kane's second wife, his business manager, and his best friend. Thus the story unfolds in snatches and flashbacks, often going over the same scenes twice, but from different...
...done so much to whip the saloon. Cannon's favorite tactic was to sue his detractors for huge amounts in libel suits that he tried to settle for small amounts out of court. In his day he sued a Congressman for $500,000 and William Randolph Hearst for a total of $7,500,000. He lost the one, settled the Hearst suits out of court, also lost his suits against TIME, which had called him "reactionary," and LIFE, which had said he was "bigoted...