Word: ralph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grew up, Libby turned from Moanin' Low to higher-brow efforts: American folk music, serious drama. In 1945 her second husband, Actor Ralph Holmes, died from an overdose of sleeping pills. Five years later Topper, who had become a popular, intelligent youth and the center of Libby's life, died in a mountain-climbing accident on Mount Whitney (TIME...
...Ralph Perry and Dave Norris, two of McCurdy's promising freshmen, led the field in their race, with Perry recording a time of 16:00.9 for the 3-mile distance. The Yardlings had 18; Penn, 52; and Columbia...
...Mahoney seemed to be having more effect on the voters than Harrison with his down-the-line defense of the Eisenhower program. G.O.P. Chairman Ralph Linn insisted that "people aren't dissatisfied." They are, he said, merely "disappointed and discouraged...
...Religion," preached Methodist Pastor Ralph W. Sockman to his Christ Church congregation on Manhattan's Park Avenue, "seems to have become the vogue in America. Church attendance is up. Church membership is growing faster than our population. Church finances are nourishing." But, he warned, this can lead to the exploitation of religion by politics, business and other interests. "Even the pulpit could be used to exploit religion rather than to explore it and expound it. We must be on guard against the tendency to use godly labels for products that are not really...
...first time in four years Harvard will meet Oxford University in an international debate, varsity Debate Council president Ralph I. Peters-berger '55 announced last night...