Word: ralph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Board of Overseers yesterday morning elected Roy E. Larsen '21 President for a one year term. He succeeds Ralph Lowell '12 of Boston, whose term as overseer expired last June...
Also more rather than less in the aural tradition are two chapters from the novel Cadenza by Ralph Kusack. Each is an episode about childhood in Ireland full of color and suspense. There are times when Kusack's grammar gets the better of the reader, but at least the prose is rarely flat. Description procedes with abrupt transitions and gives an effect resembling the flicker in old movies, but the technique suits the generally continuous action and falters only in a few waiting scenes...
...windshield area and a superenamel finish that needs no waxing for the car's lifetime. It has single taillights, parking lights in the front bumper. Ford will recommend regular instead of premium gas (saving: up to $1 a tankful). Beamed Sales Manager Marvin Cahn of Manhattan's Ralph Morgan Motors: "The new Fords won't be displayed till Oct. 17, but we have firm orders for 400-double last year...
...field the Yanks were also in trouble. Pitcher Ryne Duren and Coach Ralph Houk brawled at a champagne party celebrating the Yanks' pennant won last week. The squabble was patched up after Duren admitted he had drunk too much, but the management felt obliged to keep a squad of private detectives on the players to make sure they stayed in shape for the World Series. In the ensuing comedy of errors, one gumshoe (he was actually wearing gum-soled shoes) shadowed Star Pitcher Bob Turley for three days and discovered Turley seldom drinks anything stronger than soda...
...seven-leagued book, Carton is introduced as an untrustworthy, melancholy rummy-brilliant lawyer and all that, but essentially a tosspot. Bogarde flips his banister's wig over happily married Lucic, and from then on, both sides of the English Channel are awash in his nobility. Director Ralph Thomas leaps like a mountain goat from peak to peak: Lucie's love for Charles Darnay, the revolutionary mobs swarming in the streets of Paris, and finally Sydney Carton's self-sacrificing death to save Darnay. But inevitably the film must miss many of the deeper shadows between the peaks...