Word: ralph
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ralph: I can hum a little...
...only Ralph Rackstraw hums a little. Babies hum at the breast, and mothers hum while rocking them. Children hum at play; workmen hum at work. No company is without its office hummer who strides the halls humming his favorite pop or Paganini. Pablo Casals hums while playing the cello. Why do humans hum? In the current Journal of Auditory Research, a psychiatrist offers a couple of answers...
...After eliminating defending champ Joe Carr and U.S. Airman Ralph Morrow in the British Amateur Golf Championship, grizzled Scot Jimmy Walker, 40, ran out of steam, lost to husky British Walker Cupper Michael Bonallack...
Broad Jump. Nobody will be pushing versatile Ralph Boston very hard, but nobody has to. Just two weeks ago, the Tennessee State senior, competing in the high hurdles, the low hurdles, the high jump, the hop, step and jump, as well as the broad jump, ran up his school's entire total of 47 points at the N.A.I.A. championships, was shaded by only 2 points by Texas Southern's title-winning track team. Boston, who generally has to wait until Tennessee State's girls (most notably Olympic Triple Gold Medal Winner Wilma Rudolph) finish training before...
...lazy, indolent way to do business," said General Electric's President Ralph J. Cordiner, 61, as he sought to explain to Senator Estes Kefauver's antitrust subcommittee how G.E. executives got started price fixing. But Cordiner coldly rejected Kefauver's suggestion that G.E.'s antitrust violations constituted "corporate disgrace." Said Cordiner: "No, I am not going to say that ... I am going to say that we are deeply grieved and concerned." G.E., he said, was the only one of the 29 companies involved in the great electrical conspiracy to fire its convicted employees, because...