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Christmas Carols (The Randolph Singers, conducted by David Randolph; Westminster Stereo). The serious collector of carols could scarcely do better than this album. The Randolph group sings with sensitivity and precision, and the selections are ones that the listener is not likely to stumble across in a month of Christmases: Patapan; Saint Staffan; Quid Petis, O Fili; Bring a Torch, Jeanette...
Obviously gearing his address to a university audience, variously quoted James B. Conant, Woodrow Wilson, Artemus Ward, Matthew Hale, John Randolph of Roanoke, Francis Bacon, Cardozo, Justice Holmes, and Gilbert & Sullivan...
Sociologist Jack Randolph Conrad of Southwestern at Memphis (enrollment: 651) was asked to help suggest the best possible courses for the Scientific Age. His answer: look to the Stone Age. The most basic course, he said solemnly last week in the school's alumni newsletter, should be "introductory survival technology." Items: "How to make acorn meal, how to make simple traps, how to tan leather, how to make simple tools and weapons from stone, how to smelt ore, how to find safe drinking water, how to recognize poisonous plants, how to keep an infant alive without milk...
...politely as the Prime Minister dropped debonair references to his own visit with Khrushchev, British distaste for U.S. tariffs on woolen goods and a clutch of other matters likely to convince British voters that good old Harold was the man to support. In the Evening Standard next day, Randolph Churchill sourly commented: "It was a fascinating experience last night to see the Prime Minister on TV with his campaign manager...
...purchase of Avon was one more signpost along the new path that the Hearst empire has followed since the death of William Randolph Hearst in 1951. In constructing his corporate cat's cradle, Hearst paid so little attention to the ledger that in 1940 an economist, wading through Hearst's 94 separate corporations, discovered outstanding debts of $126 million. What Hearst was after was possessions, power and journalistic influence. His successors, a 13-man board of trustees headed by hard-eyed Richard E. Berlin, 65, a onetime Hearst ad salesman, prefer, where possible, to take a profit...