Word: ruth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Time was when pitchers got a better break. Before Babe Ruth taught club owners that home runs and high-hitting games mean cash customers, the game was played with a dead ball. Often when a home team took the field for the first time, they used a "refrigerator" ball, carefully chilled in the clubhouse icebox to make it even deader. There was no rule against spitballs, so with a cud of chewing tobacco or a wad of slippery elm, a clever man could keep the ball hopping all afternoon. After roughing up one side of the ball, pitchers used...
...Ruth V. Cook (right), retiring after 36 years as librarian of the Design School, examines the itinerary for a round-the-world tour on which Design School alumni are sending her. Presented with close to $2,400 at a reception in Fogg Museum yesterday, Miss Cook was "speechless with surprise and pleasure," and said she would need some time to decide exactly where to go on her trip...
Gaudentius Lee and Georgia Boyko, as one of the three central couples, amaze the audience by their sudden excellence when they drift into scenes from the past. Two other young duets are rather tiring, except that Ruth Nason, as the lethargic but lovely adornment of a banker's bed, is the only member of the cast who seems really to be having a good time. Her acting is exaggerated, but happy. As the inevitable French butler, Earl Edgerton is dull, but in the role of a half-mad old man, David Roberts gives the finest performance of the evening...
...RUTH ELINOR TREND Bronxville...
That he was prepared was demonstrated next day at a 31-minute press conference that centered on bombs, missiles and peripatetic Russians, but found time for a political question more personal than the one on Dick Nixon. When I.N.S. Columnist Ruth Montgomery asked with mock-solemn mien what he thought about Democratic election-year strategy to make him the prime campaign target, Ike shrugged and laughed. "Well, I think it is perfectly correct," he said. "I am the head of the Administration, and I have been shot at before...