Word: ralph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...result, the best firsthand views of history in the making are the work of self-taught engravers and limners, who turned out such rough-and-ready works as The Battle of Lexington (above}, a joint work by Painter Ralph Earl and Engraver Amos Doolittle. both believed to have been members of the New Haven Cadets under Captain Benedict Arnold.* Between Copley's departure and Stuart's return in 1793, the best contemporary portraits of the men who led the Revolution were all done by Soldier-Painter Peale...
...Died. Ralph Heyward Isham, 64, retired businessman, collector of rare manuscripts, including the Boswell papers, which were acclaimed by scholars as the greatest literary find of the century; after long illness; in Manhattan. In 1927, two years after the supposedly destroyed Boswell papers had been found by Yale's Professor Chauncey Tinker at Malahide Castle in Ireland, Isham bought his first lot of the papers, found and bought five other lots in the next 23 years, sold the entire collection to Yale...
Cash & Carry. To postpone the Capehart vote, Johnson squeezed in two amendments dear to the Connecticut constituents of Republican Prescott Bush. Result: not only more time, but Bush's vote in the showdown. By accepting Republican Ralph Flanders' proposal to link the rate of housing starts to fluctuations in general business activity, Johnson won Flanders' vote. Then he cashed in lOUs with two other G.O.P. Senators, getting them to offset two of Johnson's absent Democrats by not voting themselves...
...prerogative sometimes to be seen. The caprices made the headlines, but the top honors went to the most staunchly established pillars of a solvent society: ¶Baronies (with the right to be addressed as "Lord") went to Unilever Board Chairman Sir Geoffrey Heyworth, ex-M.P. and Bank Director Ralph Assheton, Merchant Malcolm S. McCorquodale and World Court Judge Sir Arnold Duncan McNair. ¶Knighthoods (and the right to be addressed as "Sir") went to the British West Indies' onetime rabble-rousing Labor Leader William Alexander Bustamante, who used to cock a snook at Crown and Empire...
...Casadesus, sometimes assisted by his wife Gaby (Columbia, 3 LPs); 50 Years of Great Operatic Singing (Victor, 5 LPs) ; The Saint of Bleecker Street, with the original cast, including David Poleri and Gloria Lane, conducted by Thomas Schippers (Victor, 2 LPs); 60 Harpsichord Sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti, played by Ralph Kirkpatrick; Columbia...