Word: ruth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four hiked about 40 miles up the ice slopes of Ruth Glacier. At 5,500 ft. up the Great Ruth Basin, supplies were air-dropped by Pilot Wood's wife Ginny, flying a light plane with a girl friend beside her. The four men packed 30 days' supplies on their backs, but, to save ten pounds in weight, no radio. At 10,000 ft. they ran into an ice wall, but cut hand and foot holds to climb...
...Fulton Oursler's The Greatest Story Ever Told (for which the studio is paying a cumulative $2,000,000, biggest movie sales tag in history), and a sequel to The Robe called Demetrius and the Gladiators. Others include The Big Fisherman (Columbia), The Galileans (Universal), The Story of Ruth and The Song of Songs (Charles Feldman), The Prodigal (M-G-M)-in which Lana Turner plays a priestess of Astarte...
...Downing Street for a chat with Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Beamed Billy later: "I felt as if I were shaking hands with Mr. History." Meanwhile, the Charlotte (N.C.) Observer, in a report from London, told its readers how it feels to be Mrs. Billy Graham. Confided Ruth Graham to the Observer's observer: "Just pray for a thick skin and a tender heart. You need it when people just stare coldly and call you a racketeer. Of course, there are many others who think we're just the cat's whiskers...
...curtain raiser was a frothy "sham in one act" called Malady of Love, with libretto by Film Writer Lewis Allan and music by Broadway Composer and Conductor Lehman Engel. The story: a determined young thing (Ruth Fleming) wins her psychiatrist by telling him her contrivedly erotic dreams. While she sings prettily of herself ("I've been kissed but not mated") a pair of dancers act out her words and the young doctor (sung by a fine baritone, Warren Galjour) loses all his Freudian detachment over what he sees. The 30-minute score is neatly professional...
...Information Service's offer to reimburse them by the $522 spent for Bannister's airline passage to the U.S., managed to struggle along with another, if less famed, athlete: Jack Warhop, the oldtime Yankee pitcher who served up the first major-league home-run ball to Babe Ruth...