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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...backstage visitor, Actor Ralph Bellamy, starring on Broadway as the young F.D.R. in Dore Schary's Sunrise at Campobello, perked his jaw at a bold tangent, managed a practiced facsimile of the famed face-wide grin. On hand to size up the miming: South Carolina's retired Democratic Governor James F. Byrnes, 79, whose memory of spats with the boss he once served seemed mellowed: "I understood Mr. Roosevelt's feelings about politics. But it is inevitable when you have a political difference with someone that people attribute bitterness to it. Bitterness is a popular word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 6, 1959 | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

...Francisco, a city that cherishes its eccentrics, has never had a greater one than the late Architect Bernard Ralph Maybeck. Until his death a year and a half ago at 95 (TIME, Oct. 14, 1957), scrag-bearded Bernard Maybeck cheerfully held court in the house he built for himself of gunny sacks dipped in pink cement in the Berkeley hills, delighted his visitors by ripping off hunks of the wall to prove that they were light enough to float. Barely 5 ft. tall in his home-knitted tam-o'-shanter, Maybeck was a sartorial seventh wonder. He blueprinted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Great Romantic | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

...Hodgson? In London, before World War I, Ralph Hodgson was known to a small, bright circle as a Yorkshireman who loved good talk, bred fine dogs and wrote remarkable poetry. He made his living as an editor, newspaper draftsman, publisher of broadsides and chapbooks. But his heart was in his clear, spare, melodic verse about nature. He was 46 when he published the thin volume entitled Poems (1917), which fellow poets promptly ranked as one of the best works of the young century. Then Hodgson went off to teach English literature in Japan, and little more was heard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Meet Mr. Hodgson | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

Discarding its usual veil of silence, the staid Federal Reserve Board last week issued its harshest criticism of U.S. price-boosting heard in recent years. Up before the Senate antitrust subcommittee stepped the Fed's research director, Ralph A. Young, with the charge that industry's price hikes-notably in autos and steel-cut demand and employment even further during the recession. Industry, he said, "needs to use more often the time-tested prescription of lower prices as a cure for inadequate demand and to resort less to appeals to Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Warning on Prices | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

United States Senator Ralph Yarborough yesterday called for more Federal aid to education. In a speech sponsored by the Harvard Young Democratic Club, he said no controls should be placed on such aid, even in the case of segregated schools...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Senator Urges More U.S. Aid for Schools | 3/20/1959 | See Source »

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