Word: ruth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...summary discussion of the great amount of poetry in this issue would be as presumptuous as it would be useless. Lyon Phelps, Angus Fletcher, Ruth Whitman, and Hugh Amory have made contributions which will in some cases richly repay close reading. I cannot omit mentioning, however, the thrill of discovery which I have experienced in the course of my readings of Mr. Amory's Lieder and his Prothalamium. I find them the most exquisite and successful achievements in the magazine. That the Lieder have probed so centrally into a relationship, that the Prothalamium attains a ritual by means of manifold...
Alexander Wolcott once described him as "the Babe Ruth of history." Morison's numerous academic honors justify this description. He has been awarded honorary degrees by nine colleges and universities, including Harvard, Columbia, Oxford, and Yale, and he has served as president of the American Historical Association and of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts...
...whose life in the Pentagon is made miserable by "the damned ole Senate, epitomizes this comic versatility. He delivers everything from vaudeville gags to a farcical high school oration, and is so unabashed a comedian that he laughts at his own material. The audience does too, of course. Ruth McDevitt plays Mrs. Laura Partridge, the ex-actress who attends a stock-holders meeting on the advice of her horoscope and ends up controlling the corporation, with a perfectly-timed juxtaposition of naivete and shrewdness...
...week studded with good dramatic revivals on NBC, the biggest and best was the Producers' Showcase lavish production of The Women. This feline free-for-all, written in 1936 by Clare Boothe Luce, remains an actresses' field day, and Ruth Hussey, Shelley Winters, Mary Astor, Nancy Olson, Valerie Bettis and Cathleen Nesbitt waged an exciting conflict for domination of the manless stage. A few of the more trenchant lines were dropped from the TV version of the play, and Paulette Goddard and Mary Boland seemed miscast as the viper-tongued Sylvia Fowler and the gigolo-collecting Countess...
President: Nancy D. Campbell '56, Bertram; Joan Friendly '56, Cabot; Hope Layton '56, Barnard; Janemarie McKelvie '56, Arlington, Mass, Vice President: Jean Baldi '56, Belmont, Mass.; Ruth Korzenik '56, Belmont, Mass.; Ruth Korzenik '56, Cabot. Secretary: Sheila Fred '57, 1627 Mass. Ave.; Dorothy Morrissey '57, Milton, Mass.; Judith Pearlman '57, Holmes; Antonia Schildge '57, 91 Walker St. Treasurer: Margaret R. Antonelli '57, Newton, Mass.; Nancy L. Brewer '57, Barnard; Lee Ginsburg '57, Moors; Ann Luyton '57, Saville House; Sue McCoy '57, 91 Walker St. Electoral Chairman: Dorothy Corbett '58, Moors; Nina Dimmitt '58, Bertram; Dianne Kim '58, Holmes; Jane Reynolds...