Word: ruth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...down to earth and make use of decent part of the education you could get in this fair city. Ruth Davis...
Thus, like a shower of rain after years of drought, the six-year exile of Seretse Khama, onetime chieftain of Bechuanaland's Bemangwato tribesmen, came to an end. Seretse had brought the drought on himself by marrying a blonde London typist named Ruth Williams in 1948, to the outrage of all British colonials in Bechuanaland and to large numbers of his own subjects, who, rather than accept a white chieftainess, transferred their allegiance from Seretse to his Uncle Tshekedi. To still the clamor, Britain's Laborite Colonial Office simply plucked the young king from his throne and sentenced...
...RUTH R. COLEMAN Chicago...
...Ambassador's Daughter (United Artists] Resolved: that a G.I. in Paris who has picked up a French model will act like a perfect gentleman. To this suppositious premise, Producer-Writer-Director Norman (Dear Ruth) Krasna devotes 102 Technicolored minutes of debate. The affirmative is passionately upheld by Olivia de Havilland, daughter of the U.S. Ambassador to France, who archly masquerades as a Dior mannequin to prove her point. The negative is defended by Adolphe Menjou, who plays a U.S. Senator determined to have Paris declared off limits to G.I.s, presumably on the grounds that it is too good...
...argument will live even if Mickey fails. And even if the 60-homer mark is passed, Ruth will reign supreme. His name still fills the record books. For all his switch-hitting talents, Mickey will never pitch 29⅔ consecutive scoreless innings in World Series play. He will have a tough time even approaching the Babe's lifetime total of 714 homers. It will be many a long summer before he bats in 2,209 runs. As long as he remains a Yankee, Mantle will be playing his home games in the House That Ruth Built...