Word: ralph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week John McClellan returned routinely to his office from a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. Administrative Assistant Ralph L. Matthews was on the telephone talking long distance to Arkansas state police. After hanging up, Matthews led McClellan into the Senates private office. Said he: "This is the hardest thing I ever had to do, Senator, [pause] Jimmy is dead." McClellan blinked. "You mean my Jimmy?" Matthews nodded, filled in details. Onetime Army Pilot Jimmy McClellan, 30, a proficient light-plane flyer, was taking an examination for a multi-engine pilot's license, had at his CAA examiner...
...from Washington came a strong hint to fellow Texans on the eve of the state primary election: Speaker Sam Rayburn, the voice of authority to many a Texas Democrat, had cast his absentee ballot for Liberal Democrat Ralph W. Yarborough, incumbent junior U.S. Senator seeking reelection. Election day vote counting proved that Mr. Sam had lots of company. Results at week's end: 680,000 for Yarborough, 486,000 for William A. Blakley, Yarborough's multimillionaire opponent, who had hoped to lead the forces of Texas Democratic conservatism back to power in Washington. Also nominated: Governor Price Daniel...
...Sweden in 1956 with an "allstar" jazz group headed by Trumpeter Rolf Ericsen. The Swedes loved her and mobbed her concerts. When she got back to the U.S., choice dates were still hard to come by, but West Coast jazz critics, notably the San Francisco Chronicle's Ralph Gleason, started to take note of the best new voice in the business...
Some of the finest solo talents in the U.S. turned up for one-night stands: Singers George London, Blanche Thebom, Leontyne Price, Robert McFerrin, Pianist Byron Janis, Violinist Yehudi Menuhin. Still to come are Pianist Leon Fleisher, Harpsichordist Ralph Kirkpatrick, Singers William Warfield, Eleanor Steber, Harry Belafonte. The world premiere of Gian Carlo Menotti's opera Maria Golovin will take place in Brussels, and some performers from the Newport Jazz Festival will appear. The most cherished scheme of U.S. Performing Arts Coordinator Jean Dalrymple: to find a well-heeled angel who will underwrite a live run of Pajama Game...
...skeptical of the current market level, feel the market is due for a retrenchment. The experts argue that prices are already so high that they discount both a business upturn and any acceleration the Mideast crisis might bring. "Korea brought a quick dip and then a quick recovery," said Ralph A. Rotnem, partner of Harris, Upham & Co. "But today the market is more vulnerable; people are paying twice as much for earnings now as in 1950." Bears point out that the Dow-Jones industrials in mid-1950 sold at eight times earnings; during the '53 recession they sold...