Word: rue
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...admission, Californian Clifford Rue, 30, used to be a monumental bore. He was the kind of sports fan who never could wait for the morning papers, spent half his time on the telephone badgering newspaper editors for up-to-the-minute dope. "Look," said a harassed sportswriter when Rue called him once too often, "we can't afford to take time off to give people running accounts of every cursing fight and ball game. We wouldn't have time to do anything else...
...Marine Rue was far from chastened. The complaint convinced him that the city must be full of other impatient sports fans, all just as irritating as he. A little research uncovered the astonishing fact that Los Angeles newspapers, radio and TV stations, public libraries and universities got an average of 30,000 Rue-type requests every...
...short order, Cliff Rue (a salesman at his father's liquor store) talked four friends into ponying up $40,000 to start a service called Sports Information Results. The police tapped his wires for weeks before they were satisfied that the 50 phone lines Rue wanted to put to work were not the sinews of a bookie joint...
Critics who had snubbed the opening at Paris' Galerie Alex Gazelles last month yielded to word-of-mouth raves last week and hustled over to smart Rue du Faubourg St. Honoré to join the crowds. Reported Le Figaro's Art Critic André Warnod: "It is amazing to see the prescience which seems to govern all these pictures, still lifes as well as landscapes." Said Les Nouvelles Litteraires: ". . . Prodigious. [The] designs show authority and the palette is astonishingly rich." Said the weekly Carrefour: "Our theorists will find it difficult to explain this phenomenon." The phenomenon was Artist...
...night of his death Rubinstein turned up at Nino's La Rue, a sleek supper club where he habitually dined, with a new girl friend, Estelle Gardner, a bosomy, cosmetics salesgirl. The two sipped martinis and pink champagne for a while, dined and danced, and left about 12:30 for a nightcap at Serge's mansion. In Rubinstein's third-floor suite. Estelle waited while he made several attempts to get Patricia Wray, another friend, on the telephone...