Word: ralph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Died. Ralph S. Damon, 58, president of Trans World Airlines; of pneumonia, in Mineola, N.Y. Energetic, inquisitive Harvardman ('18) Damon learned to fly before he learned to drive a car, was an air cadet in World War I, put the famed P47 Thunderbolt into mass production in World War II. Air travelers are in debted to Damon for helping develop 1) the first all-sleeper transport plane, and 2) low-cost tourist travel on both domestic and international lines...
...each to make a run-of-the-mill athletic scholarship look a little more attractive. Southeastern Conference Commissioner Bernie Moore promptly fined Auburn $2,000 for violating recruiting rules. (So far as the conference is concerned, the twins may sign with any school but Auburn.) Said Auburn President Ralph B. Draughon: "In our opinion, the rivalries in the recruiting of athletes in Alabama are reminiscent of the Guelphs and the Ghibellines, or of the feuds of the Hatfields and McCoys. [Auburn] apologizes to the Southeastern Conference...
Michael Redgrave as the air marshal is just the right mixture of phlegm and haw, and Ralph Truman as the peer is a jowly good fellow. Just right is George Rose, the commercial vulgarian who cons the better man down and then crows most abominably about...
...trip to Tokyo next day. In the dream a high official, a civil servant and a young woman were also killed in the crash; in the actual flight the local governor calls to ask if there is room on the air marshal's plane for Lord Wainwright (Ralph Truman), a colonial officer (Alexander Knox) and his secretary (Sheila Sim). The fatal conditions are completed when "a coarse, flashy man" (George Rose) wangles passage, the radio conks out, the pilot (Nigel Stock) gets lost in a snowstorm over Japan...
Other conference faults are poor preparation and direction. Often a group meets before anyone has studied the subject, and the discussion is allowed to wander. Says Trans World Airlines' President Ralph Damon: "The temptation is to wrangle about something affecting only two or three...