Word: ruth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...RUTH MANLEY POWERS Boston
LINCOLN'S SONS (373 pp.)-Ruth Painter Randall-Little, Brown...
Deductions. In Washington, Pentagon Clerk Ruth C. Mareschall was fined $100 for failure to file income-tax returns despite her explanation that she 1) had not responded to letters because her name was spelled incorrectly, 2) had refused to talk to agents who phoned her home because she thought they were "just trying to get a date or something...
Weary of trying to plumb the future with mere logic and female intuition, Washington Political Gossipist Ruth Montgomery pilgrimaged to the crystal ball of an uncanny lady named Jeane Dixon, an amateur seeress-astrologist whose predictions have often become next year's headlines.*What Jeane told Ruth: Ike will be re-elected next year, and "he will run the Government like you would run a big business," delegating many duties to ease the strain on his heart. His "Assistant President" will be Thomas E. Dewey. Adlai Stevenson's timing is all wrong; he is a political dead duck...
British Director Guthrie conducts a brilliant bombardment. In the title role, a bewigged and umbrella'd Ruth Gordon gloriously whacks ar>d wheedles her way to the altar while Loring Smith huffs and bellows, and British Actress Eileen Herlie plays a vivacious widow with bright, broad charm. If sometimes just loud and at other times too cute, The Matchmaker can also, as in a sudden whispered harmonizing of Tenting Tonight, turn warm and sweet. It can even be a little bashfully philosophical. Everyone connives with too much good nature and high spirits for any real claw to lurk beneath...