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...tenth-floor office in the old San Francisco Examiner Building, Randolph Apperson Hearst, president of Hearst Consolidated Publications, brooded last week over a set of nagging dilemmas. In the past six years Hearst's Examiner has boosted circulation 25% to 300,127, but it might just as well have stood still; in the same span, the rival Chronicle increased its sales 75%. to a pace-setting 315,180. Last year the Examiner was several million advertising lines ahead of the Chronicle, but the Hearst operation in San Francisco, which includes the struggling News Call Bulletin, is still losing money...
Winnie did not attend the ceremony, but viewed it on television via the Relay satellite in his London home. Standing in for him, his son Randolph read his acceptance of the unique honor. "It is," read Randolph, "a remarkable commentary on our affairs that the former Prime Minister of a great sovereign state should thus be received as an honorary citizen of another. I say 'great sovereign state' with design and emphasis, for I reject the view that Britain and the Commonwealth should now be relegated to a tame and minor role in the world . . . In this century...
Ghighi, who was born in Russia and was twelve years older than Charlene, appealed to her, and in 1952 she became his third wife. His second, Austine ("Bootsie") Cassini, had divorced him, married William Randolph Hearst Jr., Cassini's boss. Ghighi was Hearst's top society columnist, using the pseudonym of Cholly Knickerbocker...
Born. To Anne Baxter, 39, honey-voiced cinemactress, and Randolph Gait, 33, Hawaiian-born Australian sheep rancher: their second child, second daughter; in Hollywood...
Only three dormitories have completely resisted the changes overcoming Harvard: Randolph and Westmorly of Adams House, and Claverly Hall--the old Gold Coast. Of the three, only Claverly preserves the spirit of an older, happier Harvard, where one actually had to be elected to live in its stately rooms...