Word: ruth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...RUTH NORDLUND Bellingham, Wash...
Bankers, poets, conductors and even femmes fatales have shown that careers need not be over at 60. Last week the fact was emphasized again by two elderly ladies who kicked up their heels with the enthusiasm of dancers a third their age. ¶ In the Hollywood Bowl Ruth St. Denis, grandmother of the modern dance, unveiled her first new production since 1934, The Ballet of Light, set to Scriabin's Poem of Ecstasy. Surrounded by nine young men and women in short, Romanesque costumes, "Miss Ruth," 74, impersonated the spirit of light, moving majestically in yards of billowing silk...
From the U.S. he imported such big-league stars as Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and Jimmy Foxx, reported every move they made in Yomiuri. On one tour Ruth hit 18 home runs. Says Shoriki: "Every smack boosted circulation." (Later. Shoriki started the Japanese baseball league, now led by his own Yomiuri Giants.) From the U.S. he also imported the moneymaking journalistic ideas of his good friend, the late William Randolph Hearst...
...Died. Ruth Bryan Owen Rohde, 68, whose appointment as U.S. Minister to Denmark (1933-36) made her America's first woman diplomat; of a coronary thrombosis; in Copenhagen. Daughter of three-time Democratic Presidential Candidate William Jennings Bryan, at one time she taught public speaking, lectured on the Chautauqua circuit, served in the House of Representatives (1929-33), found greatest happiness as Minister to Denmark but had to resign in 1936 when she married Borge Rohde, a captain in the King's palace guards...
...season. To the scandal of some sentimentalists, he is already being talked of as the equal or even the better of the great Tris Speaker and Joe DiMaggio. He has hit 33 home runs in 89 games-a pace which puts him six games ahead of Babe Ruth's majestic record of 60 homers, and there are some impetuous enough to suggest that Willie is the one to climb that Everest of baseball some...