Word: ratner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wichita's Payne Ratner, 61, onetime Republican Governor of Kansas now in trouble with the McClellan committee (TIME, Aug. 25), used his political contacts with considerable skill to head off a House Labor Subcommittee investigation of Jimmy Hoffa...
...might never end. Among last week's disclosures: ¶ During a 1953 House subcommittee hearing investigating Hoffa, Chairman Wint Smith, a Kansas Republican, was called from the room to answer the telephone, returned flustered, mysteriously called off the hearings. Last week onetime (1939-1942) Kansas Republican Governor Payne Ratner, a nervous, nose-grooming witness, partly explained what had happened. As Hoffa's attorney, he had visited Smith, used the leverage built up when Smith was state highway department counsel under Governor Ratner. ¶ As chairman of the Teamsters' Central Conference, Hoffa approved payment...
...some reason the Lampoon thought David L. Ratner '52, the rather staid editorial chairman, had stolen its bird, so they kidnapped him and took him to an abandoned house in Ipswich. They took his clothes from him for a night, then gave them back and lashed him to a pot-bellied stove for a group picture. Shortly thereafter, Ratner escaped, and the 'Poon soon recaptured its bird...
...with the able assistance of a town planner from the Harvard Bridge District. They are as follows: Edward J. Coughlin Jr. '52 3L. Phillip M. Cronin '53 2L. Richard M. Edelman '52 3L, Robert E. Herestein '52 3L Rudolph Kass '52 2L, Samuel B. Potter '53 2L, David L. Ratner '52 3L, Malcolm D. Rivkin '53, R. Johnson Shortlidge '50 2L, James M. Storey '52 2L, and Charles E. Zeitlin...
...Adelaide's Lament in Guys and Dolls sings of "psychosomatic symptoms difficult to endure" ("In other words, just from waiting around for that plain little band of gold / A person can develop a cold"). But Manhattan's Dr. Bret Ratner disagrees with Adelaide. The psychosomatic approach to allergies, he complains, has become so popular that the family doctor has a hard time deciding whether to refer cases to a psychiatrist or an allergist. Allergist Ratner plumps for the allergist. Says he: "If the psychiatric factors are treated exclusively, there can be little hope for lasting help...