Word: ruth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coeducational or a girls' school, got a snappy answer: "In other words, you want to know whether she should go to a heterosexual or a homosexual school. Frankly, we don't have enough information yet on that problem." The New York Daily News's Ruth Montgomery, looking demure under a big hat, asked whether his sensational statistics might not be influenced by the reluctance of "nice women" to talk, compared with "our sisters of the street." Kidded Kinsey: "Those are not terms a scientist uses...
...living legend stepped on to the stage of the steamy barn theater at Jacob's Pillow in Massachusetts' Berkshires one day last week. She was Ruth St. Denis, world-famed dancer for more than half a century and, with Isadora Duncan, founder of modern dance. By the laws of time (she admits to 73), old Dancer St. Denis should have creaked. Actually, though nobody in the audience pretended that she looked like the girl in the White Rock ads any more, many forgot her age as they watched the practiced magic of her performance...
...someone about it confidentially. It all seemed so much more intimate, as, of course, it was, with the camera practically in your navel.'' Her fellow actors were entranced. Burt Lancaster says reverently that Shirley is "a nugget, a diamond, a pot of gold. She's Babe Ruth. She's Mickey Mantle. It's a nice note for this town that a woman like Shirley can come in and by sheer personality bowl the place over." Starlet Terry Moore was breathlessly thrilled: "Shirley is so lovable you want to throw your arms about her like...
Married. Alan Nunn May, 42, bald, unrepentant ("I have no regrets") British spy, only member of the wartime Soviet atomic espionage ring (which included Klaus Fuchs and the Rosenbergs) to regain his freedom; and Hildegarde Pauline Ruth Broda, 42, Vienna-born assistant school medical officer; he for the first time, she for the second; in Cambridge, England...
...benefit of Washington's women about town, Newshen Ruth Montgomery of the New York Daily News whipped up a little list of the capital's most eligible bachelors, tossed in some helpful hints on their personal qualifications. Speaker of the House Joe Martin: "Public Enemy No. 1, as far as Cupid is concerned . . . This engaging male is 68, dimpled, dark-haired and modest . . . has a shy sweetness ..." House Minority Leader Sam Rayburn (71): "Baldheaded, short and a little pudgy, but he's a blue-ribbon darling in anybody's date book . . . Footloose and fancy-free." Georgia...