Word: ralph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Editor RALPH McGiLL of the ATLANTA CONSTITUTION...
...years old, but fewer of them had high blood pressure (of the simple type, apparently with no other disease) than the nonexecutive males of the same age: 6.1% as against 7.5%. Cornell Medical College's Dr. Richard E. Lee and New York University's Dr. Ralph F. Schneider found that high blood pressure with generalized artery disease followed the same pattern-2.2% of executives had it, as compared with 3.4% of age-matched male subordinates. So did the combination of high blood pressure with heart-and-artery disease: 2.8% compared with 3.7% of subordinates. Most surprising, arteriosclerosis...
...stars enjoy an uncommonly fine supporting cast--better than the Broadway one, and better directed: Catherine Proctor as the weak-willed Lady Matheson; Ann Shoemaker as the self-righteous, over-protective mother; Lucy Landau as a frank, portly horserace-enthusiast; Edgar Kent as a quiet ex-schoolmaster; Ralph Purdum as a liberal-minded medical student; Audrey Ridgwell as the coolly over-efficient hotel proprietress with a warm heart; and Adele Thane and Barbara Lester as waitresses. Only Ann Stanwell, as the student's girl, is below...
...idle hour, Jazz Columnist Ralph Gleason of the San Francisco Chronicle staged a tongue-in-cheek interview with a fictional hipster named Shorty Pederstein. His old friend, he reported, had deserted the beard-and-sandal set of the Beat Generation, now boasted a Nob Hill address, clean shaves and tennis togs...
Yale's Ralph Henry Gabriel, 68. Sterling Professor of History, and deveoper in 1931 of a pioneer course in American thought and civilization. To such students as A. Whitney Griswold. now Yale's president, Gabriel presented a systematic, thought-prodding evaluation of the history of ideas in the U.S. Writing summers in a shack in the New Hampshire woods, he has filled a shelf with basic texts in American history, including his widely read The Course of American Democratic Thought. He lit few Roman candles while lecturing, nevertheless attracted up to 400 students to his classes...