Word: ralph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lyrics by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer) is a gorgeously decked-out period musical, moving from a plush New Orleans in the '80s to a palmy Saratoga Springs, N.Y. The handsome sets and costumes by Cecil Beaton are much the brightest part of the show. Despite some lively Ralph Beaumont dances, some pleasant Harold Arlen music and some neat touches in Morton Da Costa's direction, Saratoga has all the animation of a tableau and all the narrative interest of something written 50 times on a blackboard...
...Logan Truax Johnston, 60, was elected president and chief executive officer of Armco Steel Corp., succeeding Ralph Larrabee Gray, 65, who will become chairman. Pittsburgh-born Logan Johnston started in the steel industry in 1925 as a salesman for Columbia Steel Co. of Butler, Pa., joined Armco in 1927 when Columbia was merged with it, has made a career selling steel. He was named Armco's general manager of sales in 1947, a vice president in 1952 and executive vice president in 1958. As president, Johnston is expected to press product variety, which has made Armco fourth...
...slightly mythical Southern plantation, with a swarm of smiling Negroes in the great house-and another swarm of Negroes out in the cotton fields, where it is hard to see if they are smiling or not. Probably not. But for Allan and his dashing cousins, 'Dolph and Ralph, Valley Hall is a world, and the best of all possible...
Mike (the older brother) and Ralph Cahaly estimate that 90 per cent of their business comes from Harvard undergraduates. So dedicated are the two to the College trade that on snowy January final examination mornings they sell huge handfuls of three-penny postcards, at no profit to themselves, to students who have invariably forgotten to trek to the postoffice...
...Allen scribbled several funky tunes (Hackensack Train, Fink's Mules, Too Fat Boogie) and recorded them as the work of Pianist-Composer Hammer. He tricked up some of the tracks by recording first the bass, then the upper register and gluing them together. Under a second assumed name - Ralph Goldman - he wrote some typically pretentious liner notes: "Like Peck Kelly of Texas and Joe Abernathy of New York, Hammer has become a legendary figure...