Word: randolphs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this point a rotund shape loomed on the horizon. It was that of Sir Winston Churchill's bumptious son Randolph, 47, cheerily announcing his willingness to be of help: "I have always wanted to be a member of Parliament. I think my upbringing and varied experience of life entitle me to suppose without presumption that I have some useful contributions to make...
...Randolph's record as a politician did not inspire confidence in his vote-getting ability; of his seven previous bids for a seat in Parliament, only one was successful -and that was during Britain's World War II political truce. Years ago, contending for Liverpool, he had said: "I don't want to go into Parliament to represent a lot of stuffy old ladies in Bournemouth. I want to fight for really hard-pressed people." Worse yet, though he was originally a staunch supporter of the Suez invasion, Randolph had recently embarrassed the Macmillan government...
Truce. In London the Tory Party's inner council reacted to news of Randolph's foray into Bournemouth like a military headquarters that has just learned of an enemy breakthrough. Party Chairman Lord Hailsham galloped off to Bournemouth posthaste. At week's end, in a tense, three-hour session with Bournemouth Tory leaders. Hailsham persuaded them to accept the hated Nigel Nicolson again, if a private postal poll shows that he would win a majority of the 7,500 Tory voters in the. constituency...
...show that, in its half dozen best moments, reached comically irrational heights rare on TV. The hour-long (and far too slow-paced) show: Malice in Wonderland, by lampooning, lapidating S. J. Perelman, veteran of movie-writing stints (Around the World in 80 Days). Most of Malice enmeshed Dr. Randolph Kalbfus (Keenan Wynn) an innocent Manhattan psychoanalyst who goes to Hollywood as technical adviser on psychological movies. The doctor (crying, "I'm sorry, Sigmund!") is quickly seduced by Star Audrey Merridew (Julie Newmar), a wine-piney Georgia cracker who lives (on hush-puppies) with her cussing, Grant Wooden mother...
Such rehabilitation is a major aim of the prison press-and most wardens are all for it. Says Menard's Warden Ross V. Randolph: "The prison publication is a morale builder, a source of enlightenment, and a medium to educate the public-on the fact that prisoners are people." For such a purpose, the wardens are inclined to suffer occasional lapses in ethical journalism-such as convicts who send messages to their lady friends outside under the guise of news items...