Word: randolphs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most impressive witness to his independence was burly Randolph himself. Under cross-examination by Defense Barrister Gilbert Paull, he admitted readily that he had launched a campaign against the press, including The People, with a speech in 1953. "Was it not offensive?" asked the lawyer. Snapped Randolph: "Yes, it was meant...
...editorial during last year's rough-and-tumble election campaign, The People denounced Randolph's "wild blatherings" and called him "ignorant," an "egregious failure," "that slightly comic son of our great statesman," and one of the "paid hacks" writing "biased accounts of the campaign...
...Randolph, his lawyer told the court last week, objected to "paid hack." Those words were accusing him of being "a journalistic prostitute and of writing for money what he was told-a common literary drudge." Actually, argued the lawyer, Randolph's value to editors was "the fact of his complete independence." He called witnesses from Fleet Street who testified that Randolph was indeed clamorously independent...
...true that Churchill had described Lord Rothermere, publisher of the Daily Mail, as "romping around in the gutter?" Replied Randolph: "That is rather good stuff. Lord Rothermere is very much ashamed about it, but he goes on doing it. He will not thank you for giving further publicity to it in this court...
...barrister for The People then flung his sharpest harpoon. Had Randolph even used the very expression "old hack" to describe Charles Eade, editor of the Sunday Dispatch (circ. 2,549,228)? Randolph freely admitted it, added: "So would you if you read the Sunday Dispatch. I suppose if Mr. Eade thought 'old hack' was a lie or a libel, he would have written...