Word: ralph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan's Carnegie Hall glared down last week on a frail little man whose cork-tipped baton at first seemed to wave in a rhythm unconnected with the New York Philharmonic's. But after a brief edginess in the opening work, he drove the Philharmonic through Ralph Vaughan Williams' bubbling Symphony No. 8 and made the music chortle, brag, sneer and guffaw with Falstaffian humor in a sheer triumph of spirit. At the end, the audience gave him as warm an ovation as has been heard in Carnegie this year. After 15 years Sir John Barbirolli...
...only live color broadcast of 1958. Once past the opening scene's heavy-footed family frolic, the production made a softly bright delight of the land of the Sugar Plum Fairy. Avoiding the tricky camera shifts and closeups that most directors try when televising ballet, Director Ralph Nelson kept the episodes sharp, the camera steady. Result: an overall sense of gaiety and space. High point: Allegra Kent, crisp and crystalline as Dew Drop...
...RALPH B. THOMAS Advertising Specialty National Association Washington...
Also in store for the world's largest grocery is a long look at its management policies. A. & P. heirs, many of whom wish to diversify their holdings, have begun to ponder about a successor to A. & P.'s President Ralph Burger, 69, hand-picked for his job by the late John Hartford and his brother George (who died in 1957, dissolving a family trust and making the stock exchange possible...
...Died. Ralph Ansel Ward, 76, veteran (50 years) missionary to the Chinese. Methodist Bishop of Hong Kong, president (1925-27) of Foochow's Anglo-Chinese College, onetime resident Bishop at Chengtu (1937-41) and at Shanghai. World War II prisoner of the Japanese; in Hong Kong...