Word: ralph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...note sent to the press gallery by South Dakota's Republican Senator Francis Case, a Watkins committee member. Case (who is up for re-election in 1956 in a state where McCarthy has powerful political friends) had suddenly changed his mind about censuring Joe for abusing Brigadier General Ralph Zwicker. Case said he had just learned that the Army had honorably discharged Irving Peress the day after receiving a warning letter from McCarthy. Case's switch came despite the fact that the Peress chronology had been public knowledge for months (TIME, March 8). And Case himself had written...
...Stella, the other sister (Lee Grant), has risen somewhat snootily above her background: a college graduate with a magazine job, she was engaged to a doctor who has just married someone else. She is down in the mouth when she meets the bookkeeper's bright cousin Ralph (Anthony Franciosa), who sells hardware in Buffalo. Ralph falls for her, rushes her, wants to marry her. She loves him, but the intellectual snob (rather than the realist) in her resists Buffalo and hardware. When she begs Ralph to study for a profession, he flares up and walks out on her. When...
Yerby shuns both literary parties and Negro causes. He has been accused by some writers in the Negro press of racial disloyalty. But others, such as Novelist Ralph (The Invisible Man) Ellison, count it a score for Negroes that Yerby has won pre-eminence in a general field without regard to his race...
Forked Tongue. In Baltimore, Ralph Brickerd, 57, displayed a sign reading DEAF AND DUMB. PLEASE HELP to City Patrolman George T. Hughes, was asked what he meant by it, readily replied: "It's a fast way to make a buck," was arrested for the 140th time...
Ulen had been swimming a set line-up all season, but he changed it especially for Hanover. He entered Captain Charley Egan in the breast stroke. Egan hadn't swum that event since before college, but he finished second behind teammate Ralph Zani...