Word: ralph
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When Ralph Lee, a Richmond Va printer, drives his 1961 Chevy Monza to work every morning, he has to be careful not to leave the windows rolled up. "You see," says Lee, "I haven't got any door handles." A job for the local Chevy dealer? No, the local electrician. Lee is installing solenoid switch buttons that will open the doors electrically with a touch of the hand...
Craftsmen like Ralph Lee are called custom-car buffs, and his personalized Chevy was on display last week in the seventh annual Rod and Custom Auto Show of Washington, D.C.-the grand finale of 22 such shows around the country, at which automotive do-it-yourselfers compete like beauty queens...
...Fact, the second try of Publisher Ralph Ginzburg, 34, whose first publication, Eros, a quarterly that leered at the "joys of love," was canceled by the U.S. Post Office. Convicted of mailing obscenity, Ginzburg founded Fact while appealing his sentence of five years in prison and $42,000 in fines...
...into Federated Department Stores, the largest U.S. department-store chain. Federated's 60 outlets include New York City's Abraham & Straus and Bloomingdale's, Boston's Filene's, Miami's Burdine's and Houston's Foley's. Last week President Ralph Lazarus, 50, interrupted a Hawaiian vacation to negotiate a deal that will add to his chain the 23 stores (including fashionable I. Magnin Co.) owned by Bullock's Inc. of California, thus pushing Federated sales over $1 billion. Dartmouth Graduate Lazarus runs his chain from Cincinnati with the help...
Cheever's demonic quality is just beginning to emerge in his fiction from its buttoned-up Brooks Brothers carapace of realism. It has always been recognized in the private pre-Ovidian Cheever. "He is a magician," says his friend Ralph Ellison, author of Invisible Man, recalling the old women who lurked in the back parlors of the Negro section of Oklahoma City where he grew up. "He can take a watch chain or something and tell you the whole man." Even Mary Cheever subscribes to the theory that her husband is not as other men. She recounts with some...