Word: ralph
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...INNOCENT ON EVEREST (319 pp.)-Ralph Izzard-Dutton...
...Lanky Ralph Izzard, foreign correspondent of the London Daily Mail, is not one to be intimidated by the impossible. When his editor ordered him off to Nepal to cover the British Everest Expedition and beat the Times of London, off he went. But how he could beat the Times, or even get the story, was a puzzler. The Times was subsidizing the expedition; by excluding all rivals from climb and climbers, it had a guaranteed airtight exclusive. Nonetheless, Correspondent Izzard, innocent as a fox, timid as a lion, moved in. An Innocent on Everest is his modest and amusing story...
Last week there were signs that Shivers, for the first time in his long political career, was in trouble. He found himself in the unusual position (for him) of defending his public and private record against the assaults of his opponent, an eager, 51-year-old lawyer named Ralph Yarborough, * who lost to Shivers in 1952 by more than 300,000 votes. Yarborough has made political hay with a deposition, recently made public, showing that Shivers made a profit of $425,000 on a Rio Grande Valley land deal within seven months in 1946 when he was a state senator...
Five years ago Professional Wrestler Ralph ("Wild Red") Berry was injured in the ring and had to spend months in a hospital. To while away the time he read a few books-the Bible, Plato, Aristotle aad Kant, he says. Last week in Chattanooga, Wild Red was wrestling again...
Around the U.S., editors agreed that the resolution was a step in the wrong direction. To City Editor Ralph Shawhan of the Los Angeles Mirror, it was the beginning of "a gradual attempt [by] all the little pipsqueaks and politicians to suppress the news generally." Said Executive Editor Basil L. ("Stuffy") Walters of the Chicago Daily News: "Editors are getting pretty sore with lawyers who seem to believe courts belong to them...