Word: ruth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...yesterday 977 Radcliffe undergraduates had filed in and filled out their multiple forms. To date, 1,320 Annex undergraduates and graduates were registered in Longfellow Hall, Registrar Ruth Davenport announced last night...
...Clear a Name. Back in Melrose Highlands, Mass., comely, 34-year-old Ruth Alice Crawshaw, a former Navy nurse, was both grief-stricken and indignant when she got the report. To everyone who would listen, she told what a devoted husband and father Crawshaw had been. She pointed out that her husband suffered from stomach ulcers and had frequent attacks of violent nausea. Her theory was that he had fallen overboard while standing at the ship's railing during one of these seizures. Because the Navy had ruled that Crawshaw died from his own misconduct, his widow...
...More power to Andrew Wyeth [TIME, July 16]. I am so sick and tired of seeing things in your magazine called "Art"-things that look like nightmares! . . . RUTH WHITFIELD Greensboro...
Dear Brat (Paramount). First came 1947's Dear Ruth, a comedy hit; then came the sequel, 1949's Dear Wife, a turkey. The third of the series can be described as a turkey croquette. Like its predecessor, Dear Brat celebrates the adolescent excesses of Mona Freeman, playing a feminine Henry Aldrich. This time she cues Edward Arnold's slow burns and Billy De Wolfe's prissy swivets by trying to rehabilitate a hardened criminal (Lyle Bettger), who bears a special grudge against Judge Arnold. The result is the kind of movie that helps sell television sets...
...Ruth Ford plays the actress-wife of the playwright. She starts off with a quiet, sensitive portrayal of a woman who has a fairly rational enjoyment of life. But Lenormand is out to get her, too. Miss Ford is a fine actress, and it is not her fault that the sincerity of her performance forces her to whine like a whipped cur with a post-nasal drip for long stretches toward the end of the play...