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Died. Robert Isham Randolph, 68, Chicago engineer, who in 1930 formed the famous "Secret Six," an organization of businessmen who helped battle the alliance of gangsters and politicians in Chicago; of a heart attack; in Santa Barbara, Calif...
...items) was discovered by the present Lord Talbot de Malahide, who launched a treasure hunt of his own after inheriting the title in 1948 from Boswell's great-great-grandson. In accordance with the arrangement his family had made, he sold the papers to Lieut. Colonel Ralph H. Isham, Manhattan Boswell collector who has purchased all the Malahide and Fettercairn finds. By last week the collecting colonel had sold them in turn to his old alma mater, Yale...
...first real break came in 1931 when, the pianist of Isham Jones's big, slick dance orchestra went on an extended binge and Jenkins was hired as a replacement. As pianist-arranger, he got a chance to try out the "fancy and flashy" musical ideas he had been storing up since he was a boy. His shenanigans almost got him fired when a CBS station manager in Cleveland accused Jenkins of "bastardizing the airlanes" by jazzing up the classics, told Bandleader Jones to "get that thin kid out of here...
...eight chests contained 1,300 unpublished pages of the Life of Samuel Johnson, Boswell's diary, the complete manuscript of the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Boswell's correspondence with Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmund Burke, David Garrick and Voltaire. Isham had always wanted a place like his alma mater to have them. Last week, Yale bought them all with funds supplied by the McGraw-Hill Co." (which will have exclusive publishing rights) and the Old Dominion Foundation (founded by Paul Mellon, Yale...
...Pottle (Yale '21) had already begun the job of sorting and editing. Eventually there will probably be a new Life of Johnson and a definitive biography of Boswell, together with volumes of correspondence and hitherto unknown poems by Johnson, and essays by Reynolds, which are included in the Isham collection. Scholars guessed that those books would be only the beginning. From now on, it seemed, no 18th Century scholar would be up on his subject unless he had spent some time at Yale...