Word: ruth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fewer Phonies. In California, Joe is a member of the State Athletic Commission, president of the Pony Baseball Leagues (for boys from 12 to 15), and the donor of a sports trophy room to U.C.L.A. containing such mementos as Babe Ruth's bat and the trunks Gene Tunney wore the night he won the championship from Jack Dempsey. Joe thinks he is the only man living to have two athletic fields named after him: one in his home town of Hoigate, Ohio, the other at U.C.L.A., which has made him an honorary undergraduate (Joe never got beyond the ninth...
...Ruth Abrams, of Newton and Cabot Hall and Martha McCabe of Oklahoma City, Okla., were named class secretaries. They received the highest vote in a top-two-of-four slate which also included Joyce Bisbee and Torvey Johnson...
...York Yankee centerfielder Mickey Mantio yesterday smashed a mighty 562-foot home run over the center field wall at Griffith Stadium in Washington. Babe Ruth's 600-feet homer in Briggs Stadium in 1926 was the longest homer ever...
Emma Merrill '56, newly elected technical manager, is assisting Salaman with the set revision. The station recently elected Aida Romanoff '54 president, Sandy Rosman '55, program director. Ruth Jacobs '54, production manager, and Marina Von Newman '56, business manager...
Washington Columnist Ruth Montgomery reported that oldtime Cinemactress Mary Pickford, during a recent White House visit, recalled a White House lunch in 1924 during which President Calvin Coolidge spoke only once: "Early in the luncheon, Mrs. Coolidge had informed her husband that Mrs. Howard Chandler Christy, wife of the artist, was ill. Silent Cal merely grunted. Finally, two courses later, he peered over his spectacles and mumbled, 'D'jasendflowers...