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...wonder how many letters you have received from those of Irish descent regarding Randolph Churchill's comment on the "vulgar Kellys"? Such remarks make it almost impossible to understand or believe in the publicized advantages of British diplomacy and rule in the few dominions and colonies Britain still governs...
Somewhere in the ruckus. Britain's Randolph Churchill picked a fight with his wealthy countrywoman, Lady Docker, and screamed aloud: "I didn't come here to meet vulgar people like the Kellys." A learned representative of the French Academy, Europe's high temple of culture, launched a formal complaint when Monaco's Prince refused to permit the reading of an ode especially written for the occasion by Academician Jean Cocteau, on the grounds that it was too effusive. Highballing away the nights and days in their hotel suites just as though they were in the good...
Lament for April 15 and Other Modern American Madrigals (Randolph Singers; Composers Recordings, Inc.). Thirteen songs for five a cappella voices, composed by such U.S. composers as Ulysses Kay, Kurt List, Charles Mills, some funny, some atmospheric. The title song is Avery Claflin's setting to music of portions of the federal income-tax instructions (TIME...
This week Sergeant McKeon was in the Parris Island brig and Marine Commandant Randolph Pate was back in Washington after conducting a personal on-the-scene inquiry. Congressmen cried for an investigation into the basic training methods that have made the U.S. Marine Corps an elite. And. attended by Marine honor guards, off to home cities went flag-draped coffins bearing the bodies of the six men that Drill Instructor McKeon's zeal and stupidity had left in the water of Ribbon Creek...
Savrola is a rollingly romantic tale of "revolution in Laurania," and Churchill some years later, after noting that it "yielded about seven hundred pounds" (not more than $3,500), confessed: "I have consistently urged my friends to abstain from reading it." The legend, though denied by son Randolph, persists that Churchill tried for a time to buy all outstanding copies of Savrola, to reinforce his friends' abstention...