Word: raglands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Superintendent Thomas Ragland of the Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corp. plant at South Charleston, who had played host to Modarelli when he was trying to get "a feel" for the industrial section of Saga, beamed at the sound effects of whirring machines and the tripping of interrupter switches. "Precisely as they are heard in the plant," said...
Trade Tool. In Memphis, Emett J. Ragland defended himself in court by exhibiting his diploma from Lumpkins Barber College, was nevertheless fined $50 for carrying a razor...
Died. John Morgan ("Rags") Ragland, 40, onetime truck driver and burlesque gagster who hit the big time in Broadway's Panama Hattie, became filmdom's genial portrayer of comic morons (Du Barry Was a Lady, Anchors Aweigh, Her Highness and the Bellboy); of uremic poisoning; in Hollywood...
...Highness and the Bellboy is not entirely an unbearable experience. Miss Lamarr, as usual, is one of the loveliest women alive-or even sleepwalking. "Rags" Ragland, as a friend of Miss Allyson's, is very gentle and likable whenever he forgets to imitate Walt Disney's Pluto. Some of the bellhop-cripple scenes are genuinely touching. And June Allyson, though she is used time & time again for no better purpose than to beat your brains out with pathos, remains a charming and promising young actress...
Frank Sinatra, teatiming at the White House at the invitation of Democratic Chairman Robert Hannegan (who also brought along Manhattan Restaurateur Toots Shor, an ex-bouncer, and Funnyman "Rags" Ragland, an ex-burlesque comic), was kidded by the President about "the art of how to make girls faint," and came away determined to buy radio time of his own to campaign for Term IV. Observed The Voice: "My fans are not all teenagers. . . . Besides, even the 15-year-olds can influence people...