Word: ralph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contestants will include Frederick H. Dearworth '58, Theodore S. Hirtz '58, F. Orlan Lee '56, Frederick J. Marker, Jr. '58, Duane J. Murner '57, Ralph B. Perry III '58, Donald G. Richards '56, James W. Shue '58, Richard H. R. Smithies '57, and John E. Trent...
...operatic spoof called Apollo and Persephone, staged by the adventurous After Dinner Opera Company. Gayest of the week's premieres, it was written and composed by 40-year-old English Composer Gerald Cockshott (pronounced kosher), who originally dreamed up his libretto for his mentor, Composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, but liked it so much that he set it to music himself. The story is a salty, zany rewrite of the Persephone legend. The young goddess is hoping for a man to come along before she gets "broad in the beam and saggy"; first Pluto catches her, then is talked...
...grew older, his mind seemed to become livelier (he came to be known as "Old Man Eloquent"), and no combination of the ailments that plagued him could keep him from his job. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote: "He is like one of those old cardinals, who, as quick as he is chosen Pope, throws away his crutches and his crookedness, and is as straight as a boy. He is an old roue who cannot live on slops, but must have sulphuric acid in his tea." Sulphuric he remained to the very end. In February 1848 a resolution was proposed...
Morning Line. In Boston, William L. Coilty and Ralph K. Stuart each filed suit for $5,000 against the New Haven Railroad, charged that they suffered "mental anguish, constant anxiety and financial loss" when the Narragansett Special arrived too late for them to bet the daily double at the track...
Pete Reider and either Dave Norris or Ralph Perry will race favored Alex Breckenridge in the two-mile. Lest anyone fear that Villanova alone will dominate the meet, Norm Bruck in the dask will face the world record-holder, Penn's Johnny Haines, in the dash...