Word: ralph
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Once a corporation has selected a new chief in the privacy of its boardrooms, any earlier disagreements are usually muffled in a routinely unanimous public announcement. But when the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. last week announced a successor to Chairman-President Ralph W. Burger, who resigned as president because of age, the reaction in public of A. & P.'s board was neither unanimous nor routine. Burger proposed that Vice President and Treasurer John D. Ehrgott succeed him. All 14 inside directors, officers of A. & P. or its operating divisions, voted yes. Surprisingly, six outside directors* elected...
...over 60, and some of the wrinkles show. Last fiscal year A. & P. slipped $6,000,000 in sales and $1,500,000 in earnings, while some competing chains, notably second-place Safeway, marked up good gains. The directors' revolt against age failed to impress outgoing President Ralph Burger, who has been with A. & P. for 51 years. After all, he learned his trade and landed his job from Brothers John and George Hartford, who made A. & P. the empire it is. John lived to be 79-and died on the job; George worked to within two years...
...Ralph Ellison, a Negro, is skilled as a novelist to the degree that James Baldwin, also a Negro, is skilled as an essayist. That is to say, he is among the very best of all U.S. writers, whatever the shade of their skin. But Negro writers quite properly find inexhaustible subject matter in their own racial wounds...
...delivered the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures and was elected to the Board of Overseers in 1933. He was the Ralph Waldo Emerson Fellow in Poetry from 1939 until 1942, during which period he also served as an associate of Adams House...
Niederhoffer is now favored to beat Sam Howe's brother Ralph, the national intercollegiate champ, when Harvard and Yale clash in February. The Ellis have won the top three matches for the last two years, but this year the Crimson could beat the best Yale team in history...