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...connection enough for Lovett's headmaster, the Rev. James McDowell. He promptly resigned, saying, "The church has spoken on the matter of segregation, and it is my duty, so long as I am a priest, to adhere to its teachings." At the same time, the Rt. Rev. Randolph Claiborne, Jr., Bishop of Atlanta, declared that the trustees' actions "have forfeited the right of implied or official support for the Lovett School by the Episcopal Church." But to many, the bishop's words seemed hollow, since he had hardly exhausted opportunities for bringing pressure on the school...
...London's biggest Sunday newspaper was quite definite about it. Said Stafford Somerfield of the News of the World (circ. 6,484,445): "Neither Mr. Churchill nor any other writer decides where in the paper a story shall go. That is the editor's responsibility." But Randolph Frederick Edward Spencer Churchill, 52, the World's political columnist, was definite too. He did not want his interview with Britain's new Prime Minister, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, to get second billing to a story on traffic problems. Result of the argument: Randolph's resignation...
Thus last week the son of Winston Churchill propelled himself past yet another turning in his tempestuous journalistic career. The cause seemed trivial, but then, Randolph Churchill has habitually splintered his freelance over trifles. And anyway, it was only a matter of time until the News of the World joined the long list of newspapers where Churchill had previously found working conditions intolerable...
Even after this unwelcome expense, the News of the World was anxious to keep Churchill, if only for sentimental reasons: back in the 1930s, Randolph's father had been a frequent and fiery contributor to the paper. But Randolph is not very keepable. Only last month, when the World refused to publish an intemperate Churchill attack on Labor Party Leader Harold Wilson-whom Churchill described as "a barefoot dog"-Churchill had to pay a left-wing Labor weekly to carry the column...
Having been set adrift by the News of the World, Churchill will probably land on another London paper. It is not likely to be the Daily Mail, though, or the Daily Telegraph or the Evening Standard. Randolph has already been there...