Word: ruth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...memory of Babe Ruth's great 1927 hitting spree of 60 home runs has haunted every major league season since then...
Last week three National Leaguers-two oldsters and a comparative rookie-were hitting in a way that made amateur statisticians wonder how close they would come to Ruth's record.* Brooklyn's reliable Duke Snider, batting .315, blasted out three homers last week to keep himself on top with 38, just two ahead of Cincinnati First Baseman Ted Kluszewski, last year's home-run king...
...help a couple of rookie pitchers, Don Bessent and Roger Craig, hold off the opposition and give the Dodgers' sore-armed veterans a rest. At bat, he is once more teaming up with Centerfielder Duke Snider to make one of the toughest one-two hitting combinations since Ruth and Gehrig. Campy settles into the batter's box with sure confidence-legs spread, left foot in the bucket so that he is half facing the pitcher-and he rattles out base hits, and moves with the swift authority that is the secret dream of American youth...
...Shawn walked into the Manhattan studio of famed Dancer Ruth St. Denis. "I went to tea and talked so long I was invited to supper. Five months later we were married in City Hall. But Miss Ruth had ideas about marriage. One of them was that marriage was supposed to be fatal to a woman's career, so we kept it a secret. Nine months later Miss Ruth told a Kansas City newspaper woman about it in strict confidence, and the news landed on the A.P. wire." The headline, confusing Shawn with an esthetic dancer named Swan: RUTH...
...Dance Is Religion. The couple formed a school, Denishawn, which lasted some 16 years, until Ted and Miss Ruth separated (though not legally) in 1931. Shawn next flouted the opposition of backers and booking agents to rescue male dancers from general scorn as sissies and mere props for female dancers. From 1933 to 1940 he successfully toured the country with his troupe of male dancers. But with World War II the draft made short work of this project. Shawn himself danced and directed shows at Keesler Field, Miss. Since the war he has devoted himself to building up Jacob...