Word: ruth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past a cheering throng of Hollywood starlets, gift-laden advertisers and proud neighbors, and out into the bright glare of television lamps and popping flashbulbs. There she smiled winningly at the camera and scooped up a shovelful of light, sandy earth. The occasion: the groundbreaking, Hollywood-style, for Mrs. Ruth Colhoun's private A-bomb shelter...
JIMMY FOXX, onetime first baseman for the Philadelphia Athletics and Boston Red Sox, who hit more homers (534) than anybody but Babe Ruth...
Women, notably Ruth and Esther, have figured prominently and heroically in Jewish history, but not in the temple or synagogue. The Apostle Paul, a Pharisee, carried the male tradition of Judaism over into Christianity when he wrote: "Women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be subordinated, even as the law says...
Divorced. By Ruth ("Bazy") McCormick Miller, 29, favorite niece of the Chicago Tribune's Bertie McCormick, heiress apparent to his press properties and editor for the past year of the Washington Times-Herald: (Maxwell) Peter Miller Jr., 31, the Times-Herald's former treasurer; after nine years of marriage, two children; in Ottawa...
...scoundrels who administer justice. Out of a gunpoint encounter, he strikes up a friendship with an upright dude (Leif Erickson) from Boston who has become a U.S. marshal in Dallas. Cooper takes over Erickson's identity and fancy duds, his official mission and, at length, even his girl (Ruth Roman...