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...denied him a majority. In the House, Clay threw his support to Adams, who thus became President. Though Clay hotly denied Jacksonian charges that he had made a deal, he was soon appointed Secretary of State by Adams. Tempers ran so high that Clay fought a duel with John Randolph, who had publicly vilified the Clay-Adams alliance as "the combination of the Puritan and the blackleg...
Died. Douglas Horton, 77, Congregational minister, who headed the 1,298,205-member Congregational Christian Churches from 1938 to 1955 and the Harvard Divinity School from 1955 to 1959; of a heart attack; in Randolph, N.H. A prime mover in the ecumenical movement, Horton helped form the United Church of Christ in 1957 from the Congregational Church and the Evangelical and Reformed Church, served on the World Council of Church es from 1957 to 1963, and was a Protestant observer at the Vatican II Council from...
Elephant Trap. Within three years, Frewen had married Clara Jerome, the daughter of a New York financier (her younger sister Jennie had recently married Lord Randolph Churchill). He had also regularized the shipment of champagne to the Powder River settlement, introduced white riding breeches and the English saddle to the region, made a friend of Buffalo Bill Cody, and become manager of a cattle empire capitalized at $1.5 million. In 1884, his sixth year in Wyoming, his Powder River company declared a dividend of 24%. The next year, however, a combination of bad weather, rustlers, homesteaders and an obtuse board...
Trouble & Tragedy. Following his father's death in 1965, Randolph mellowed markedly. Dropping out of the public eye, he turned to a new task; writing a five-volume biography of Sir Winston's life. "I've wasted a lot of my life," he conceded. "Now there's a satisfactory conclusion-good solid work to do." He had finished two of the volumes, both of which won critical acclaim, and was at work on the third when he died of congestive cardiac failure...
...Though Randolph ultimately accommodated himself to life in the shadow, the Churchill family has had more than its share of trouble and tragedy. Only his youngest sister Mary, now 46, who is married to Britain's Ambassador-designate to France Christopher Soames and is the mother of five children, has managed to live a normal life. Randolph's second-youngest sister, Marigold died in infancy in 1921. His sister Sarah, three years his junior, is afflicted by the "deep belief that I was an accident" and has frequently been arrested for drunkenness and disorderly conduct. His eldest sister...