Word: ralph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...word spread from house to house, almost as fast as the wind. Families piled into cars and evacuated. Fire trucks screamed in from all points. In one surge the fire burned ten homes, including that of TV Star Ralph (This Is Your Life) Edwards (damage: $100,000), who was already in residence at his other home in Beverly Hills. (Movie pressagents, sniffing some profitable headlines for their clients, quickly got into the act with a string of announcements describing the tribulations of various movie folk, e.g., Kim Novak, Jane Russell, Alan Ladd and Glenn Ford. Even Hedda Hopper...
...desperate Panthers finally got moving, made a break of their own by recovering a Tech fumble. Quarterback Corny Salvaterra alternated with Fullback Ralph Jelic to roll up yardage. Late in the third quarter Salvaterra scored-still moving the hard way, through the middle of the line. But there was no time to catch up. All autumn long the Panthers had grown fat on heartstopping, last-half rallies. "This time," said Coach Michelosen as he looked at the 21-14 score, "we coughed up the ball once too often...
Another idea is for a flexible depreciation allowance based on the inflationary ups and downs of the economy. Under this proposal, as expounded by Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co. Vice President Ralph M. Besse, depreciation rates would still be on the basis of original costs, but would vary according to changing dollar values; thus if rates, for example, were 3% annually and prices shot up 100%, the allowance would automatically double, and businessmen could recover 6% of their original cost in that year. "Even so," says Besse, "at the end of the depreciation period, we would not have recovered enough dollars...
Below the Belt. In Laramie, Wyo., Mrs. Ralph Conwell got into the right side of her Chevrolet to wait for her husband, cinched up her new safety belt, tried in vain to reach the brake as the car rolled down the driveway, rammed a truck, jumped the curb, mowed down a lilac bush and crashed into the bedroom of the house next door...
That was enough for Vermont's plain-spoken Republican Senator Ralph Flanders, 76, who proceeded to sound off on what has obviously become one of his favorite topics...