Word: ralph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bells. Entrepreneur Caccienti is rarely aware of the kind of music being played in his sewer: he is a bit hard of hearing and besides, he knows little about jazz. This has its advantages. Explains the San Francisco Chronicle's Jazz Columnist Ralph Gleason: "It's the club musicians like best. First, the owners don't tell them what to do. They can't-they can't communicate. Second, the audience is best. Why else except to listen would anyone endure these conditions...
...sleepwalker groping in a murky crypt; John Masefield sibilates waveringly through his The Story of Ossian (Argo) in a reading that does nothing to relieve the poem's turgid dramatic flow. The opposite failing-a tendency to rhetoric where mere passion would do-mars Sir Ralph Richardson's swooning reading of The Poetry of Keats (Caedmon), and turns Carl Sandburg's A Lincoln Album (Caedmon) into an uneasy collection of pieties at odds with the vigor of Lincoln's own prose. Cyril Cusack, trying to milk every drop from the "dense and driven" poetry of Gerard...
...with a spate of Shakespeare-Coriolamis, Othello, Julius Caesar, Richard II-in a series of journeyman readings by the Marlowe Society players, who eventually will press all the plays. One of the most majestically read of the talking books is MGM's Joseph Conrad, in which Sir Ralph Richardson whittles Youth and Heart of Darkness to half-hour slices while preserving their familiarly sea-wallowing cadences: "And on the luster of the great calm waters, the Judea glided imperceptibly, enveloped in languid and unclean vapors...
...Ralph Bunche, Negro, Nobel Peace Prizewinner and United Nations Under Secretary, it was a peaceful moral victory. Only a week had passed since Bunche disclosed that his 15-year-old son had been barred from membership in New York City's fashionable West Side Tennis Club (in Forest Hills, Queens) because of his race (TIME, July 20). Club President Wilfred Burglund, the Manhattan public relations man who had told Bunche that the club excludes Negroes and Jews, resigned last week amidst public clamor for his singed scalp. Then the club's governors were moved to announce...
GENERAL ELECTRIC. First-half profits climbed 13%, from $1.18 to $1.34, on a 4% sales rise, in what Chairman Ralph Cordiner called "a continuation of the steady improvement begun last year." Cordiner was "encouraged" by increased consumer spending and a hike in expansion spending by industry...