Word: ruth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brooklyn, where a jostling crowd of awed detectives were craning at Willie like bobby-soxers goggling at Frank Sinatra. Triumphantly, after suitable briefing and a fond look at Willie himself, the commissioner called in the press and announced: "We've just caught the Babe Ruth of bank robbers...
Platoon, Half! In Detroit, Corporal William J. Thompson sued 2nd Lieut. Ruth E. Thompson for divorce, charged: "She throws her rank around...
After five days of freedom on her fifth escape, during which she managed to get a beauty treatment and a new hairdo, Winnie Ruth Judd went back to the Arizona State Hospital in Phoenix and gave herself up. Reason: a grand jury promise to hear her side of the 20-year-old trunk murder for which she was tried and convicted without having taken the witness stand in her own defense...
...After Trunk Murderess Winnie Ruth Judd made her fourth escape from the Arizona State Hospital in Phoenix last December and was picked up within 24 hours, bets were laid that she would do it again within three months. Last week the bets were collected after police issued a terse bulletin: "Winnie Ruth Judd is missing...
...this point, Invitation plunges into a series of flashbacks that slowly convince Dorothy that she is not only doomed but duped. She discovers that her husband was hired by her father to marry her; that the other woman (Ruth Roman) expects Van back as soon as she is dead; that even her faithful maid has another job ready & waiting the moment the funeral is over. These scenes, painstakingly written by Playwright Paul Osborn (On Borrowed Time, Point of No Return), have a certain effectiveness, but it is eventually canceled out by a slick reconciliation and by the offstage presence...