Word: randolphs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Publisher William Randolph Hearst at 88 shuffled off his editorial coil, his most fabulous legacy was his California barony-on-the-Pacific (375 sq. mi. in its heyday) known as San Simeon. Through the 14 Hearst newspapers last week, W.R.H.'s sundry heirs and the Hearst Corp.-good taxpayers all-announced that the 120-acre heart of their splendiferous white elephant, worth some $50,000 a year to California in taxes, had been given to the State of California. A condition of the gift, which includes a Moorish castle: it will be dedicated as a "historical monument...
Divorced. Jack Randolph Webb, 37, creator, director and star (as wooden-faced Sergeant Joe Friday) of radio and TV's Dragnet (TIME, March 15, 1954); by his second wife, Dorothy Towne, 27, blonde sometime actress; after two years of marriage (including three separations), no children; in Hollywood...
When Robert R. Young was battling his way to control of the New York Central, one of his aides was Randolph Phillips, onetime New York newspaper financial writer. After Young won in 1954, he and Phillips fell out (TIME, Dec. 26, 1955) because, according to Young, Phillips failed to get the top Central job he expected. Phillips set about getting revenge. Though a battery of high-priced Central lawyers had never laid a legal glove on Young, Phillips soon had Young hanging on the ropes...
...RANDOLPH S. CHURCHILL...
...have a period after it. † For Who's Who's 1920-21 edition, Movie Vamp Theda Bara proudly pointed out that her papa had ceased to be a Goodman, was now legally Bernard Bara, to conform with her screen name. During World War I Lady Randolph Churchill (néee Jennie Jerome of Brooklyn) unaccountably failed to list Winston as her son. A correction from Harry Houdini: "I am not a magician, but a mystifier." General Electric Co.'s Wizard Charles Steinmetz described...