Word: randolphs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Star-Telegram grew, so did Carter's enthusiasm for Fort Worth. He once talked so eloquently about the city's future to Publisher William Randolph Hearst that Hearst bought the only morning daily in the city. Hearst was sorry; in less than four years Carter's competition was so tough that he sold out to Carter, leaving only the small (cir. 52,393) evening Scripps-Howard Press to compete with the Star-Telegram (combined morning-evening circ. 246,354). For $300 Carter bought a radio station (which later became the paper's profitable WBAP-TV), then...
Married. Clara King Stribling, 48, widow of W. L. ("Young") Stribling, Georgia's onetime perennial heavyweight boxing title contender who died following a motorcycle crash in 1933; and the Rt. Rev. Randolph Claiborne, 48, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta; she for the second time, he for the first; in Marietta...
...Record: "it is well known that the coward Tito and his entourage were spending their time attending drinking parties with Randolph Churchill in the port of Bari while Soviet armies, after annihilating Hitler's divisions, were occupying Belgrade" (Literary Gazette...
...Edward Randolph Welles, Bishop of West Missouri, pointed out to the 66th annual convention of his diocese in Carthage that for Christianity's first thousand years or so, the making of a saint was a purely local matter, left in the hands of the bishop. In the Roman Catholic Church, bishops lost this right in 1634, a century after the Reformation.* It would be wise and welcome, thought Bishop Welles, to revive this practice, and he suggested a commission to study the "heroic sanctity" of two Missouri candidates for canonization...
CHARLOTTE WARDLAW DOWMAN Randolph Field, Texas...