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EDDIE KENDRICKS--I once thought of moving to Philadelphia because someone told me that Phillie radio plays David Ruffin all the time. When Ruffin left the Temptations, I figured their die was cast. Now Kendricks has split, and the chief consolation is that he intends to continue performing on his own. All the striking falsettos in the Temp's harmonies were...
...addressee of one letter was Mrs. George L. Ruffin, editor of Boston's Courant, the Negro newspaper published from 1883 to 1899. (Her husband was the first Negro to be graduated from Harvard Law School (1869), and he managed to sail through its entire curriculum in one year.) The writer of this 1891 letter, Thomas W. Higginson, appended a postscript to point out that all the work of grading and laying out the grounds around the Cambridge Public Library was done by Negroes. This is the same Higginson who was graduated from Harvard in 1841 and from...
...cast is so large, the production so elaborate, the touches of excellence so frequent that it is hard to decide whom to applaud first. But despite the strength of some individual performances director Ruffin Cooper, musical director David Nelson, and producer Sam Lewis are perhaps most deserving of praise...
Died. Charles Ruffin Hook, 83, longtime (1930-59) president and chairman of Armco Steel Corp., the nation's fourth-largest steel company (1962 sales: $918 million), who married the boss's daughter and ran the company with such a velvet glove (the industry's first eight-hour day, first group insurance plan) that to this day fewer than half of Armco's 34,000 employees belong to the steelworkers' union; of cancer; in Garrison...
...Ruffin Cooper, Associate Producer of the Experimental Theater, did an excellent job of directing the well-paced production, but his choreography was less successful. The cast was probably equally at fault, however, for none of them, particularly the girls, danced with natural ease or grace...