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...ancient water hole called Taima-Taima in northern Venezuela became the deathbed of a young mastodon -- killed, apparently, by some of the first Americans. The site, excavated by Alan Bryan and Ruth Gruhn of the University of Alberta in Edmonton, appeared to contain 13,000-year-old mastodon bones, one of them embedded with a pointed stone projectile. Mixed in were stone tools and rounded pebbles that could have been made only by humans. Some archaeologists, however, believe the artifacts found at Taima-Taima became interspersed with the mastodon bones as the water level in the hole rose...
Four of the seniors will be graduated summa cum laude: Ruth Gruhn of Cornwall-on-Hudson, N.Y.; Deirdre Hubbard of New York City; Svetlanan Leontief of Cambridge; and Anne Ruggles of Dallas...
Five Radcliffe seniors were elected to Phi Beta Kappa Tues., Nov. 13, Mrs. Wilma Kerby-Miller announced. Two Anthropology concentrators, Ruth Gruhn and Cynthia Irwin, two Social Relations majors, Mrs. Barbara Rodamer Hoffman and Caroline Roberts, and a student in Romance Languages, Mrs. Ann Rand Eldridge, were selected...
...days at Nürnberg, tall, intense ex-Gestapo agent Dr. Hans Bernd Gisevius "sang." He had some significant gossip to impart: in 1933 War Minister Field Marshal Werner Eduard Fritz von Blomberg (54, widowered father of five) met Erika Gruhn in one of Berlin's better brothels. Said Gisevius, she was licensed to ply her prostitute's trade in seven major cities, and, as a sideline, she sold pornographic literature. By 1938, she had acquired such influence over the Herr Minister that he decided to marry...
...happened that ambitious Hermann Goring was looking for an easy way to eliminate Blomberg, who was a lukewarm Nazi at best and might oppose schemes of conquest. Fraulein Gruhn was just what Goring needed. Goring was most helpful to Bridegroom Blomberg, even induced Hitler to come to the wedding. But as soon as the couple had left on their honeymoon, Goring took Frau von Blom-berg's police file to the Fuhrer. Hitler promptly flew into one of his tantrums and sacked Blomberg...