Word: randolphs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...play right into the frame of mind of the vast majority of other young men and women who are not Communists but "who have been raised in homes (at least in the West) where any conception of foreign policy that exists has been determined by the newspapers of William Randolph Hearst and finds expression in parrotlike repetitions of Washington's "no foreign entanglements" statement. The result of this unwitting partnership between half-cocked idealists and the sage of San Simeon is a young generation with about as much sense of world responsibility as a tribe of aborigines...
Most rational people would have got out of the mess in two minutes. But nobody in My Favorite Wife is rational. The result is 90 minutes of delightfully irrational comedy. Again Gail Patrick gets jilted. So does Randolph Scott, possibly the only actor in Hollywood who can be dignified and plausible at the same time while confessing that he spent seven years alone on a desert island with Irene Dunne without ever giving the Hays office a bad moment...
Lively, humorous, a great storyteller, Grant likes to tinkle on the piano while he sings bawdy verses. This makes him a great favorite with the racier, worldlier younger set that includes Reginald Gardiner, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Robert Coote, Phyllis Brooks, Lee Bowman, Randolph Scott. Scott started working for Paramount when Grant did and they are great buddies, and have often shared the same house...
Arranged in chronological order on the museum's walls were U. S. admirals and naval battles, from the American Revolution on, lent by naval enthusiasts, from William Randolph Hearst to President Roosevelt. Some famed battle scenes: the U. S. flagship Bon Homme Richard and British frigate Serapis (1779), Battle of Lake Erie (1812), Battle of Mobile...
Married. Major George F. M. Cornwallis-West, 64; and Georgette Hirsch, 58; he for the third time (first wife: the former Jennie Jerome of New York, widow of Lord Randolph Churchill and mother of Winston Churchill; second wife: Mrs. Patrick Campbell-see p. 77); in London...