Word: ralph
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Mulder and Mortensen have also garnered brief accounts of Mormonism from a lineup of 19th century notables: Horace Greeley, Charles Dickens, Ralph Waldo Emerson (who called Mormonism an "after-clap of Puritanism"), John Greenleaf Whittier, and Mark Twain. The latter's revulsion at the concept of polygamy melted at his first sight of the "poor, ungainly and pathetically 'homely' creatures" that were the Mormon wives. "No," Twain wrote, "--the man that marries one of them has done an act of Christian charity which entitles him to the kindly applause of mankind, not their harsh censure--and the man that marries...
...jovial farewell to the cast of The Entertainer, in which he played a boozy, aging song-and-dance man, Actor Laurence Olivier piped some 150 show-world guests (among them: Lena Home, Peter Ustinov, Ralph Bellamy) aboard a chartered excursion liner for a midnight cruise up the Hudson River. Garbed somewhat loosely in naval attire (explained mink-clad Actress Jessica Tandy: "I'm dressed as a Russian lady sailor"), Olivier's un-nautical crew dipped into champagne and stout, danced Scottish reels to the skirl of a bagpipe, taxied home from the cruise...
...take him out in the seventh or eighth round," said Lightweight Champion Joe Brown just before he climbed into the ring in Houston to defend his title against nimble, light-punching Challenger Ralph Dupas. As good as his word, the lean Louisiana Negro put Dupas on the deck three times in the eighth, finally stepped back politely to let Referee Jimmy Webb announce what everyone in the arena already knew: Brown was still the boss of the 135-lb. division...
...Right Rev. W. Appleton Lawrence, retired Episcopal Bishop of Western Massachusetts; Presbyterian President John A. Mackay of Princeton Theological Seminary; Congregational Dean John C. Bennett of Union Theological Seminary; Baptists Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick (retired) and Dr. Robert J. McCracken of Manhattan's interdenominational Riverside Church; Methodist Dr. Ralph W. Sockman of Manhattan's Christ Church; and Baptist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. of Montgomery, Ala. ¶The Woman's Division of Christian Service of the Methodist Board of Missions threw its 1,800,000 members behind an appeal to the U.S. Government "to abandon its inflexible...
...operations committee, Foote will concentrate on creative advertising and marketing. ¶Robert Paxton, 56, was elected president of General Electric Co., biggest electrical manufacturer in the world (1957 sales: $4,335,664,061). Paxton, a Scottish-born, U.S.-educated (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1923) engineer, moved up as President Ralph J. Cordiner, who will continue as chief executive officer, was elected board chairman to succeed Philip D. Reed, who retired...