Word: ruth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first U.S. dance company to hit Pans since the war had been greeted by a very small Allõ. The French like ballet but they like it classical; and the Ruth Page-Bentley Stone Ballet Company's big number, Frankie and Johnny, was just raw American barbarism to the French audience (TIME, May 22). As the first shock wore off, the audiences and critics became more tolerant but hardly less puzzled. Last week a second wave of U.S. dancers reached Paris...
Both the mother and sister of Mrs. Ruth Tucker, 49, had died of the disease which sent her to Chicago's Little Company of Mary Hospital. There is no known cure for polycystic kidneys, an ailment in which cysts form and destroy the normal kidney tissue. After talking things over with her husband, Mrs. Tucker agreed to let Dr. Richard Lawler, 54 staff member at the hospital, try a transplant...
...superior-general of the Roman Catholic Congregation of the Brothers of St. Francis Xavier; in Fort Monroe, Va. As superintendent of St. Mary's Industrial School in Baltimore, Brother Paul encouraged the star of the school's baseball team, a promising lefthanded pitcher named George Herman Ruth...
Electees are: Ruth Ahara, Biochemical Sciences; Mary Grimley, English; Erica Hecht, English; Ann Howe, English; Mary Lyon, English; Mrs. Berna Osnos, Classics; Rosalind Rudy, Romance Languages and Literatures; Dorit Selig, English; Alice Sizer, Romance Languages and Literature; and Mrs. Barbara Snelling, Philosophy...
...Hangover (MGM) has a theme reminiscent of the 18th Century legend about George, Duke of Clarence, who was reputedly drowned in a vat of malmsey wine. As modernized by Writer-Director-Producer Norman (Dear Ruth) Krasna, The Big Hangover tells how Van Johnson narrowly escaped a similar fate: when a French monastery was bombed during the war, he had to stand on tiptoe for hours in a cellar flooded with 100-year-old brandy. The ordeal left him so vulnerable to alcohol that even a glass of punch could set him talking happily to a lampshade...