Word: randolphs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Visiting with President Eisenhower for 45 minutes one day last week were four top U.S. Negro leaders: the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. of Montgomery, Ala.; N.A.A.C.P. Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins, A. (for Asa) Philip Randolph, founding (1925) boss of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, and Lester B. Granger, executive secretary for the National Urban League. The four were mindful of the President's recent exhortation to Negro publishers that Negroes be "patient" in their quest for full civil rights, and Wilkins, for one, had criticized Ike roundly. As a result, both the Negro leaders and the President...
...Randolph read to the President a nine-point demand for executive programs ranging from a White House conference between Negro and Southern leaders, to handing out special aid to schools that might lose state funds under Southern anti-integration statutes, to stiffer Justice Department action on cases where Negroes have been denied voting rights...
...President omitted the irritating word "patience" but frankly pointed out that "violent" federal actions would aggravate racial situations. Said he: "We are doing our best." Announced Union Boss Randolph approvingly after the meeting: "You remember Mr. Roosevelt? You must remember that he did most of the talking. He was a glamorous personality, and it was difficult to get a word in edgewise. Well, this man [Eisenhower] listened...
Covering Middle East hot spots through a glass darkly, high-spirited Journalist Randolph Churchill, son of Sir Winston, managed to set a short-tour record (45 minutes) for strife-torn Beirut. Lumbering into the Palm Beach Hotel after curfew, Randy demanded 1) a room, 2) whisky, 3) an explanation from the British embassy's second secretary for not meeting him at the airport. When the secretary explained about curfew, Churchill decided to go higher, hung up with "I'll telephone the ambassador-you're not much use." Hoisting another round, he ran afoul of an aide...
...grandly at some of the wittiest dinner parties in the nation. No foreign dignitary could say he had been a success in the U.S. until he had been to Sands Point to play a round of big-league croquet against such guests as Averell Harriman, the Marx brothers, William Randolph Hearst Jr. or Swope's late elder brother Gerard, onetime president and board chairman of General Electric. On the croquet court Swope was insufferable: "Now you put your little foot on your ball and drive the other buckety-buckety off into the orchard. Perfect...