Word: ruth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cover story on Novelist John P. Marquand (TIME, March 7, 1949), Books Editor Max Gissen and Researcher Ruth Mehrtens spent days interviewing their subject, even following him on a trip to the Bahamas to finish their research. Later, after the novel Melville Goodwin, USA was published, Marquand made a confession to Gissen. He had used them as an inspiration for his characters Phil Bentley and Myra Fineholt, the writer-researcher team in his novel. However, Marquand assured Gissen that Ruth Mehrtens was not at all like his researcher Myra Fineholt. "Miss Mehrtens," he said, "is a charming girl...
...recent note from TIME Correspondent Harvey Rosenhouse in Guatemala City began: "Shortly before the battle for Guatemala broke out, I arrived home one evening to learn that a guardia judicial (secret policeman) had waded through my muddy street that day to question my wife Ruth about my activities. He had passed it off by calling it just a 'routine call.' However, a friend I knew in the government phoned me soon after, and asked me to call him immediately on another phone. I did and he explained that my home phone was tapped by the police. that...
Cambridge University Ruth Draper, monologuist LL.D...
...mutter. "Now git up there on the green like ah say." Snead lacks Hogan's machine-tool precision, but he is as durable as Sarazen, as handy with the irons as Byron Nelson, and he outdrives Bobby Jones in his prime by a full 20 yards. Like Babe Ruth (to whom his fans often compare him) and the little girl with the curl, Snead is sensationally good when he is good-and when he is bad he is horrid. He is never dull. He plays a gamboling, gambling game that hypnotizes the spectators. He rarely plays it safe. Unlike...
...weary. Just back from Italy, she was on the mend after a bout with two kidney stones. Nor had she got a warm welcome from her studio, which last week suspended her for stalling at playing the lead in Love Me or Leave Me, the film biography of Singer Ruth Etting...