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After the war, Randolph developed into a cantankerous, litigious gadfly who showed Churchillian propensities for good drink and ridicule, but lacked his father's offsetting attributes of literary genius and intellectual brilliance. He failed in three more attempts to win a seat in Parliament, cranked out nine undistinguished books, and wrote numerous newspaper columns in which he vented his wrath on Americans, British politicians and the Fleet Street press lords. "I'm a naughty tease," he explained. "I like to attack rich and powerful people." The London Observer mused that he was "dangerously over-inflated with...
...difficult to be the son of an outstanding father, Randolph Frederick Edward Spencer Churchill had one of the most difficult roles in history. Born in 1911 in the year his father, Winston Churchill, became First Lord of the Admiralty, Randolph keenly felt the overpowering effects of his father's greatness. "When you are living under the shadow of a great oak tree," he once reflected, "the small sapling does not perhaps receive enough sunshine." Last week, at 57 still in the shadow, Randolph Churchill died...
From his early childhood, Randolph felt compelled to emulate his towering father. After undistinguished years at Eton and Oxford, he followed his father's early example by popping off to the U.S. for a lecture tour. One subject: "Why I Am Not a Socialist." American audiences loved him, but Britons turned him down when he ran for Parliament. In fact, he lost three successive campaigns for a seat until he finally sneaked into Parliament for a brief stay in 1940 after winning an unopposed by-election. "I like Randolph," purred Noel Coward. "He is so unspoiled by his great...
Dangerously Overinflated. Randolph's finest hour came at the same time as his father's-during World War II. Displaying what one of his commanders called "foolish courage," Randolph volunteered for a commando raid hundreds of miles behind enemy lines in North Africa. Then in 1943, defying capture by the Germans, he slipped several times by boat and parachute into enemy-occupied Yugoslavia, where he served as his father's personal envoy to Marshal Tito's partisan bands-a service that made him a Member of the Order of the British Empire, the country...
Also: Peter A. Jaszi; Frank M. Kahr; Joseph A. Kanon; Anil Khosla; Walter Kiechel, III; Robert G. Kopelson; Thomas E. Kruskal; Robert J. LaRocca; Robert D. Levin; David O. Loud; Harold S. Luft; Randolph H. Lundberg; Harry K. Macwilliams; Neil S. Mayer...