Word: randolphs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...purchase of Avon was one more signpost along the new path that the Hearst empire has followed since the death of William Randolph Hearst in 1951. In constructing his corporate cat's cradle, Hearst paid so little attention to the ledger that in 1940 an economist, wading through Hearst's 94 separate corporations, discovered outstanding debts of $126 million. What Hearst was after was possessions, power and journalistic influence. His successors, a 13-man board of trustees headed by hard-eyed Richard E. Berlin, 65, a onetime Hearst ad salesman, prefer, where possible, to take a profit...
Sales Pitch. In Randolph Township, N.J., Repairman John Notari was fined $275 for paying teen-agers to break neon signs so that he could get the job of repairing them...
...than a stocky (5 ft. 9 in., 175 Ibs.), spectacled Indianian named David Monroe Shoup. Right after he was made colonel in 1943, Dave Shoup (rhymes with troop) led the 2nd Marine Regiment in storming Tarawa, won the Medal of Honor. Last week, selecting a successor to retiring General Randolph Pate, 61, as Marine Corps Commandant, President Eisenhower passed over five lieutenant generals and four senior major generals, named Major General Shoup...
...bulk of the Chronicle was given over to the governing board's revised rules, since the editors had detected "a certain degree of confusion" among members over Establishment standards, i.e., Sir David "Eccles wearing those fearful shiny shoes, Churchill Minor [Randolph] going on too much." Among the Establishment rules
...rewrite man on the Wall Street Journal was having a hard time establishing his identity. "Quit your kidding!" he would be told when answering his phone or calling for information. But he really was Winston Churchill, 18, handsome grandson of Sir Winston himself. Young Journalist Churchill, son of Journalist Randolph Churchill, is spending the summer in Manhattan, working at the Journal for experience and for nothing (his student visa bars him from a paying job), will go to Oxford this fall...