Word: ralphness
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...Comcast Kingdom's new 56-story castle in Philadelphia's Center City is gilt-edged--a gleaming obelisk, from its flushless urinals to the sumptuous cafeteria named for the company's 88-year-old co-founder Ralph Roberts. "The tallest [building] between New York and Chicago," gushes the hometown Inquirer...
Comcast got the message. The company is paying a 25¢-per-share dividend, buying back $7 billion in stock, paring capital expenditures and canceling a scheme to keep paying Ralph Roberts after he dies. Greenberg now says Comcast is coming around, "The company is doing what shareholders want in a very smart...
...recounting of the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery march is credible without listing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Ralph Abernathy, Joseph Lowery, Bernard LaFayette, John Lewis, James Foreman and Dick Gregory. All seven were jailed in Alabama fighting for African-American voter empowerment...
Sherlock Holmes became a tweed icon at the turn of the last century after sporting nubby wool capes while on the trail of London's miscreants. Ralph Lauren's first collection in 1968 made the tweed suit a menswear staple. And now Lower East Side hipsters can't seem to get enough of the classic suiting fabric, signaling that tweed is staging a comeback. For his fall collection, Junya Watanabe spun the storied fabric into schoolboy blazers nostalgic for jaunts across Cambridge's Bridge of Sighs. And with the recent sartorial resurgence, it's no surprise that tweed is migrating...
...Crew tweed fedora hat ($68; jcrew.com 5 Etro nylon and tweed men's bag ($1,400; etro.it) 6 Alexander Olch blue and gray herringbone tie ($160; Bergdorf Goodman Men's, 212-753-7300) 7 Harrys of London Mansion slippers ($650; San Giorgio Shoes for Men, 702-770-3599) 8 Ralph Lauren Home Balines standard sham ($175) and Baslow Tattersal European sham ($350; ralphlaurenhome.com