Word: ruth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sports announcer on Detroit radio stations. But his great ambition, election to baseball's Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., always eluded him. Lesser men made it; Heilmann's misfortune was that he had played in the shadow of such titans as Tris Speaker, Rogers Hornsby, Babe Ruth and Harry's own teammate, Ty Cobb...
...Cobb (.367), Rogers Hornsby (.358), Dan Brouthers (.348), Ed Delahanty (.346), Willie Keeler (.345), Tris Speaker (.344). Babe Ruth and Jess Burkett also...
...Patricia Highsmith's 1950 novel, the picture begins with a chance encounter on a Washington-to-New York train between, a tennis player (Farley Granger) and a wealthy, gabby ne'er-do-well (Robert Walker) with a touch of homicidal mania. Granger, in love with Socialite Ruth Roman, wants to rid himself of a faithless wife who is balking at a divorce; Walker would like nothing better than to see his own father dead. Aglow with enthusiasm, Walker proposes that they both commit murder, obliging each other with a friendly swap of victims so that the crimes...
...Ruth Ford carries the main load superbly in "A Phoenix Too Frequent" with Nancy Marchand and Robert Flectcher in two supporting roles. The plot, if such it be, involves a Greek widow starving herself beside the body of her beloved Virilius, who perished heroically "in his office tunic...
...Everything." Dagmar (who was born Virginia Ruth Egnor) left Huntington six years ago because she was too softhearted to keep her job in a loan office ("I hated asking all those nice people for money!"). In Manhattan, she tried modeling for a while, got a bit part in the Olsen & Johnson musical Laffing Room Only through one of the shortest interviews on record (Johnson: "What do you do?" Dagmar: "I do everything." Johnson: "I bet you do."). Before the sensational breathing exercises on Broadway Open...