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...Ruffin Cooper, Jr., Associate Producer of the Experimental Theater, will direct the revue, a series of satirical musical sketches on current foibles of modern society. Clayton Koelb, Executive Producer of the Experimental Theatre, is the producer...
...since World War II, the U.S.'s long-held textile trade surplus of $300 million has turned into a gold-draining deficit of $400 million yearly as foreign textile men push low-cost, cheap-labor textiles into the U.S. market. The Textile Institute's President William H. Ruffin, who will be succeeded in the job later this year by Stevens, captured the general mood of the convention: "All that this industry wants is a chance to buy American-grown cotton at the same price it is sold to foreign competition...
White-maned, Yankee-hating Edmund Ruffin watched the signal shot burst over Charleston harbor, seeming to trace in its flame the palmetto emblem of South Carolina. He had left his Virginia plantation, carrying with him a pike appropriated from John Brown's abolitionist band (its Ruffin-inscribed label: "Sample of the favors designed for us by our Northern brethren"), to see his dream of disunion come true. This-4:30 a.m.. April 12, 1861-was his great moment. Edmund Ruffin stepped proudly forward, pulled the lanyard of a columbiad and sent the first of some 600 rebel shells...
...Sickles the Incredible) Swanberg magnifies Sumter's importance for dramatic effect, tending to cast it as an actual cause of the Civil War instead of the incident that set off a conflict long inevitable. Nonetheless, in the policies of drift and duplicity that led to Edmund Ruffin's pulling the lanyard, and in the strains it placed on the minds and loyalties of the men involved, Sumter can serve as a microcosm for the Civil...
...name, Sixth Avenue. Its hole-in-the-wall souvenir shops, cut-rate stores, bars, and delicatessens sprawl in an incongruous line between the luxury of Fifth Avenue and the tinsel of Broadway. But last week Sixth Avenue made an appointment for a beauty treatment. Real Estate Men Peter B. Ruffin and John Galbreath, who built Manhattan's 45-story new Socony Mobil Building (TIME, Oct. 1), announced plans for a 60-story, $50 million to $60 million stainless-steel-sheathed skyscraper, with the most floor space of any postwar U.S. office building...