Word: ralph
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...credit for this resiliency belongs to Howard L. Clark, 49, Amexco's relaxed, forthright president. Clark joined the company in 1945, fresh from wartime duty as a lawyer in the Navy (where he worked with a fellow lieutenant named Richard Nixon). Hired as assistant to President Ralph Reed, Clark watched and learned the business over Reed's shoulder, developed a strong group of young executives, succeeded his boss in 1960. He promptly began reorganizing American Express, giving existing divisions more autonomy and, most important, spreading the company into many new fields...
...RALPH LOCKE New York City...
...this," he said, "why don't you have stories like this?" It was an article called "28 People Who Count," People who were "Heroes of the California rebels (and as Cal goes, so go the rest)." The list included Ralph Ginzburg, the publisher of Fact magazine; Bishop James Pike ("Because he's a kid's kind of troublemaker, always in hot water, always on the liberal side: birth control, capital punishment. The Bomb, and all that"); Caryl Chessman; Norman Mailer; and, good God, B.F. Skinner ("Because he points to the cool world...
...this. I was fascinated by the concept of a predominantly Negro institution," he recalls. He remembers Howard in the 30's as a mecca of Negro intellectuals whose academic and social concerns coincided, and fondly recounts bull sessions with the likes of Franklin Frazier, Abraham Harris, Francis Sumner, and Ralph Bunche...
...another sanitarium, of his bouts with drug addiction or liquor. From all this, Levant comes out as a man who might have been but just missed, who wallows in that unhappy fate by parading as an object of derision. The effect is painful, like a Levant joke: "Ralph Edwards had wanted me to be on his program This Is Your Life, but he couldn't find one friend...