Word: ruff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sure that the University of Pennsylvania's George Ruff doesn't give a Rapp, but isn't he the Project Mercury psychiatrist who asked: "What did the little particles say, John?" J. C. SCHAEFER Philadelphia > That was a Ruff question...
Unlike two other famous Manhattan business streets. Madison Avenue and Wall Street, West 47th is virtually a closed corporation-except to men with relatives in the trade. "A man's knowledge is his livelihood," explains Dealer David Ruff. "You make a decision a minute, and it's easy to make a costly mistake." Most wholesale dealers have small shops, sell at a 5% or 7% markup, employ brokers who do the actual leg work for a 1% or 2% commission. Nearly 80% of the West 47th Street trade is wholesale, but there is also a thriving retail business...
...food, drink and the classics occurs every Sunday afternoon in New Haven, Conn., at a nightclub known as the Playback, which attracts fans like Author Thornton Wilder, Diplomat Chester Bowles and Composer Quincy Porter to hear serious music spiked with first-rate jazz. Playback is the plaything of Willie Ruff and Dwike Mitchell, the two jazzmen who touched off a modest international incident last year when they introduced cheering Russian audiences to the intricacies of the Cool. Equally at home in jazz and classical music (Ruff has a master's degree in music from Yale, Mitchell studied...
Instead of sinking their money in a leather-topped bar and zebra-striped divans, they hired a good sound engineer to build an acoustically perfect room. In a typical program, Ruff and Mitchell, assisted by Composer-Pianist Robert Helps and Drummer Charlie Smith, presented the U.S. premiére of Paul Hindemith's Sonata for Alto Horn and Piano, followed it with a Ruff-Mitchell composition titled Fugue for a Jazz Trio. The club features a regular string quartet from Yale, and will draw heavily on the talents of such Yale faculty members as Violinist Howard Boatwright, Pianist Seymour...
...contract with Fellow Expert Bertram Lebhar, against Leonard B. Harmon and Ivar Stakgold. Before Moyse made his opening lead, Goren noted that Declarer Harmon was obviously down, announced that any orthodox lead would set the contract (four tricks: ace and queen of trumps, ace of spades, and a spade ruff by East...