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Through the sleepy stupor of a Sunday morning came the elevating lull of National Public Radio. Nat Hentoff, free-speech champion, was paying tribute to Ralph Ginzburg, who had died July 6 at the age of 76. That snapped me awake. Ginzburg had been declared a pornographer, had lost a Supreme Court obscenity decision and gone to jail - all for publishing a magazine I'd subscribed to when...
...standing by removing some of her antagonistic white constituency. And anti-Bush sentiment is high. Crossover voting in Georgia's open primary (which helped defeat McKinney in 2002) is likely to be smaller than usual because of a heated Republican fight for lieutenant governor between former Christian Coalition head Ralph Reed and Georgia Senator Casey Cagle. Plus, it's tough to defeat an incumbent...
...director, George Abbott, was pleased, and gave Allyson a lead role in his next musical, Best Foot Forward. When MGM did the movie version, Allyson went west, and stayed there. So did Stanley Donen, who would soon graduate from chorus boy to choreographer and director, and Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane, whom the studio signed to write the score for Meet Me in St. Louis, starring the MGM princess Judy Garland. The diva and the ingenue would become lifelong friends...
...with tradition and invited a big-name designer to dress up the umpires, line judges and "ball kids." That imported Americanism - the traditional English terms remain ball boys and ball girls - is apt, since the sponsorship deal, worth an estimated $10 million over five years, was awarded to Polo Ralph Lauren, America's favorite purveyor of preppy chic. Elsewhere at Wimbledon a different designer has been competing for the attention - and cash - of fashionable tennis fans. Stella McCartney handpicked 19-year-old Russian Maria Kirilenko (who lost in the tournament's first round) to [an error occurred while processing this...
...zero military and national-security experience"?as was the case with the current President, George W. Bush?he understands the problems facing everyday Americans. It's refreshing to hear someone like Obama speak from the heart and actually mean what he says. Elect Barack Obama in 2008! Ralph Reagan West Cape May, New Jersey...