Word: randolphs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reno converged some 20,000 cinemaddicts in all stages of esthetic and convivial excitement. They came by car, bus, train, plane. Present were the Governors of five States, 50 movie stars, including Errol Flynn, Miriam Hopkins, Randolph Scott, Humphrey Bogart, Priscilla Lane, Tom Mix, Mary Astor, May Robson, Wayne Morris, Ralph Bellamy. Three special trains transported newshawks from Manhattan, Chicago, Los Angeles...
Willmott Harsant Lewis, born in Cardiff, Wales, went to China in 1899, covered the Boxer Rebellion. He has never returned to Britain except on brief visits. For George Gordon Bennett's old New York Herald, Bill Lewis covered the Russo-Japanese War. He worked for Joseph Pulitzer, William Randolph Hearst, spent seven years as editor of the Manila Times...
Items: "We are thrilled silly about the fact that Errol Flynn, Miriam Hopkins and Randolph Scott are really going to set foot in Reno [cinema premiere at Virginia City]." ... On the American Youth Congress: "Is the A. Y. C. innocent or guilty [of Communism]? Is the cutting criticism of the papers, columnists and President warranted, or is it a lopsided 'Martin Dies expose'? . . . Was not the A. Y. C. attacked without reason...
...U.S.Army prepares to double its Air Corps by June, 1941 to 5,500 planes with pilots to man them, two Harvard graduates, now at Randolph Field, are scheduled to be transferred to Kelly Field for their final three months of training before they receive their wings...
Brother Rat and a Baby (Warner Bros.) should prove embarrassing to Virginia Military Institute as the graduates from Brother Rat, Bing Edwards (Eddie Albert), Billy Randolph (Wayne Morris), Dan Crawford (Ronald Reagan), project their prankish adolescence into extramural life. In the absence of one Mr. Harper they move into his apartment, smash a priceless ship model, pilfer and pawn an invaluable Stradivarius, appropriate $200 Harper has left in Bing's care, finally burn up the apartment, for which Bing has forgotten to mail the insurance policy. "Anyway," says one prankster, "Mr. Harper still has his life." It is distinctly...