Word: randolphs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...piece, the monumental hoard of art and knickknacks collected by the late William Randolph Hearst is going under the auctioneer's hammer. The latest group, some 300 pieces of old arms and armor, sold in Manhattan last week for a total of $40,810. The sale included a 16th century burgonet (helmet with cheek-pieces), the highest priced item, which went to a private collector for $3,200, and a 1560 wheel-lock Italian arquebus which the Metropolitan Museum of Art bought...
Introduced by the show's original announcer Bill Hay (who came out of retirement for the occasion), they brought back a few such famous characters as Lillian ("Madame Queen") Randolph and Elinor ("Ruby") Harriet, and recalled some favorite milestones from their script life: Madame Queen's breach of promise suit against Andy (". . . We was engaged 147 times in one year . . . an' it woulda been more dan dat if we'd been goin' steady"); Andy's first meeting with Kingfish- played by Gosden (Andy: "Say, scusee me for protrudin', stranger...
Died. Dr. Edgar Rudolph Randolph Parker, 80, U.S. chain-store dentist, whose ballyhooing techniques and easy professional ethics boomed his practice but outraged his colleagues; in San Francisco. Booted out of a New Brunswick divinity school for "bad misdemeanors and barefaced falsehoods" more than 60 years ago, he took up dentistry, practiced in Brooklyn, held street-corner lectures on oral hygiene and pulled teeth on the spot. In 1915 he changed his name, thereafter advertised himself as Painless Parker, Dentist. When death came he was running 27 offices on the West Coast, employing 75 dentists...
...life of the YCL. But other groups took up the slack. The Harvard Socialist League, part of the Greater Boston Student Committee for Peace and Freedom, organized a large anti-war demonstration on Boston Common on Armistice day, 1935. The League was also successful in banishing arch-conservative William Randolph Hearst's battle-filled Metrotone Movie News from the University Theatre...
...pinned down just short of the top. Angrily they counterattacked again, supported by a tremendous U.N. artillery shoot. They were met by withering small-arms fire and showers of grenades, and the Red artillery caught them in the open. "Human flesh could stand no more." wrote A.P. Correspondent John Randolph. "The little green-clad figures leaped and ran again, but this time down the hill, away from the deadly shell fragments and screaming rock splinters...