Word: ripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...RIP REILLY...
...they take that uniform off me, they'll have to rip it off," Campy once said. If, as seems likely, he has been retired at 36, Campy can look back on a career to be envied. Summed up the New York Herald Tribune's Red Smith: "In the great social contribution which baseball has made to America since 1946, Jackie Robinson was the trail blazer, the standard bearer, the man who broke the color line, assumed the burden for his people and made good. Roy Campanella is the one who made friends...
...wheel all the way." During rehearsals she was consulted, says Jaffe, "on many things that don't really involve her." Of the 16 shows in the $3,200,000 series, she wants to star in three-Rapunzel, Hiawatha, and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow-and narrate the others (Rip Van Winkle, Sleeping Beauty, Ali Baba, etc.,). But to Shirley, the best feature of her Storybook is that most of it is filmed, freeing her for civic and housewifely chores around Atherton, Calif. (25 miles south of San Francisco), where she leads the life of a wealthy California mother...
...classic Rip Van Winkle, which Wyeth illustrated for David McKay Co. in 1921, moved him to greatness. Wyeth's paintings of young, virile Rip retreating from his termagant wife to spend a day in the hills (opposite), and of old Rip's return after a 20-year sleep of enchantment to find his house silent and deserted (see overleaf), are as classic as the story. They have nothing in common with the works of the great French illustrator Gustave Dore, or with the Englishmen Cruikshank and Tenniel, except genius. In the U.S., no other illustrator ever achieved such...
Potent Arm. Mayor Lawrence appeared on the municipal scene just when Financier Richard K. Mellon (Mellon National Bank, Gulf Oil, Alcoa) and a platoon of lesser tycoons were preparing to rip their dowdy old city apart and rebuild it. Lawrence proved to be a valuable political ally. He ordered strict enforcement of smoke-control ordinances, pressured Democrats at Harrisburg and Washington to pass laws and approve appropriations that helped build new roads, bridges and dams. His reward: the business community's gratitude. Four years ago Lawrence's Republican opponent was not even invited to participate in the face...