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Harvard erased a 21-14 first half deficit as Co-Captain Ralph James, returning from a shoulder injury that had plagued him for most of the season, ignited a run that brought Harvard to within five at halftime...
...like his counterparts on the two other Harvard sports posters--hockey's John Weisbrod and basketball's Ralph James--Callahan was tagged with what proved to be the curse of the sports poster. All three athletes suffered devastating injuries early in the season which kept them out for a large portion of the year...
Typical American chronicles that bittersweet journey for Ralph Chang, a Chinese engineering student who comes to the U.S. in 1947 for his doctorate; his wife Helen; and his sister Theresa. The Changs initially disdain the lack of tradition they describe as "typical American" behavior, but soon they are stir-frying hot dogs. They also fall under the spell of Grover Ding, an American-born Svengali of free enterprise who leads Ralph into a dubious fried-chicken business, seduces Helen and causes Theresa, the family loyalist, to leave home. The happy ending for the Changs comes not in abandoning the American...
With the score knotted at 8-8 in overtime, Crimson midfielder Ralph Vogel raced into the offensive zone and, drawing the Dartmouth defense towards him, fed Chip Linehan. The junior attacker collected the pass and fired a hard shot that bounced into the upper right corner of the cage which gave the Crimson a dramatic 9-8 victory...
...that 19th century writers should write a prose that seems so stabilizing in the late 20th. Ralph Waldo Emerson is good to have beside the bed between 3 and 6 in the morning. So is the book of Job. Poetry: Wallace Stevens for his strange visual clarities, Robert Frost for his sly moral clarities, Walt Whitman for his spaciousness and energy. Some early Hemingway. I read the memoirs of Nadezhda Mandelstam (Hope Against Hope; Hope Abandoned), the widow of Osip Mandelstam, a Soviet poet destroyed by Stalin. I look at The Wind in the Willows out of admiration...