Word: ruth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Lewis R. ("Hack") Wilson, 48, colorful, brawling onetime National League home-run king (in 1930 he hit 56, four short of Ruth's record); in Baltimore. An ex-coal miner, Wilson joined the New York Giants in 1923, hit his peak from 1926 to 1931 with the Chicago Cubs, finally drank his way out of the big leagues, ended up broke...
...Ruth Rogers and Elise Goedeke, both 1G, frightened by the prowler who was naked below the waist, barricaded themselves in the living room. Dorothy Kein 1G, was ironing in the kitchen during the ruckus. "I thought it was a mouse they were talking about," she explained...
When TIME'S Education editor, Allan B. Ecker, and Researcher Ruth Brine faced atomic-physicist Robert Oppenheimer for the first time, they were understandably apprehensive. In preparation for the Oppenheimer cover story (TIME, Nov. 8) they had looked over enough morgue material on him to know that his agile mind would be impatient with journalism's question & answer methods. Sure enough, at the first interview's end he remarked: "You know, if you were physicists, I'd fire you. I'm the murderer and you are lousy detectives...
Mary Sherich, Ruth Hiebert, Emily Ingraham, and June Pretty, all Class of '51, were the other four who swam for the Annex. "We'd love to play Harvard," they said last night...
...that Emil Drvaric and Billy Booe may get a chance to match toes against each other. Booe, a 146-pound, five-foot six senior from Shelton, Conn., has kicked 27 straight points after touchdown, six at the end of last year and 21 this fall. Drvaric, considered the "Babe Ruth" of collegiate kickoff and point-after artists, has converted 12 times for the Crimson this year. He is one of 14 Seniors, including the Chipper, who will be playing their last game of football for the Crimson today