Word: randolphs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another Gold Coast mansion, Randolph Hall, used to vie with Claverly for the honor of attracting football players and social elite. Now the western part of Adams House, Randolph in the second decade of the century had everything Claverly could offer--plus a sunny corner on the first floor used as a breakfast room. Panelled in stained oak, this "special cafe" served light breakfasts until noon "to those whose drowsiness keeps them abed after hours...
...heyday the Hearst newspaper chain was one of the world's biggest moneymakers. Even as late as 1947, in the booming postwar publishing years when aging Founder William Randolph Hearst paid little attention to business the chain earned $11 million after taxes. But since Founder Hearst's death in 1951, rising costs and decreased revenues have created trouble for the chain's 16 papers. To fight the profit decline, Publisher William R. Hearst Jr. revamped the American Weekly, once a big moneymaker, cut editorial staffs and trimmed costs all down the line. But this was not enough...
Just three years after her marriage to Captain Horace Brown, oldtime Cinemactress Marion Davies, longtime great and good friend of the late William Randolph Hearst, decided to call a halt, filed a divorce suit against Brown alleging mental cruelty. Marion and Captain Horace had the same sort of trouble in 1952, but made up before court convened. This time, though, it seemed that Marion intended to go through with it. Hollywood was not surprised, because it had been a stormy marriage. Even for fun-loving Marion, Captain Horace was a cutup. On one occasion he found a gun and shot...
...WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST JR., in his "Editor's Report": The consensus would seem to indicate Democratic dark horses as the probable winners in most of the races. There is no doubt that the failure of divergent factors in the [Republican] party to reconcile their differences and form a united front is one of the prime reasons for the present state of affairs. I think the answer can be stated: McCarthy. In 1952 Joe McCarthy was a tremendous Democratic problem. In 1954 Joe McCarthy is a tremendous Republican problem. Whereas the Democrats were unable to steal the anti-Commie ball...
...when divorced American Actor Douglas Fairbanks got into the enclosure. But there was nothing they could do. (Fairbanks got his passes through the U.S. embassy; had he been a British subject he would have stayed outside with his peers, Sir Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, Bertrand Russell and Randolph Churchill...