Word: ruth
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...teaching, library and lab work, a few professions and in government. Massachusetts State Banking Commissioner Carol Greenwald, who in 1973 herself became the first part-time officer of the Federal Reserve Bank, has hired two research assistants with different skills to divide one salary. In Palo Alto, Calif., Ruth Freis and Miriam Miller share the post of program director for a network of day-care centers, and Engineer Chris Jako has arranged to split a job planning a science center with Biologist Pat Cross. A few liberal-arts colleges-including Iowa's Grinnell and Ohio's Oberlin-have...
...wore a plain black shift, the other a camel suit and wool hat. No one recognized them, but they were led to a dugout box. The two never exchanged a word, never even a glance, and that fit neatly into the legend: everyone knew that years ago Mrs. Babe Ruth and Mrs. Lou Gehrig had had a feud which split their husbands' friendship. And, the old story continued, it wasn't healed until 1939 when Ruth, in an open-necked shirt and blindingly white double breasted suit, threw his arms around the dimpled, still-uniformed, dying Gehrig before a packed...
Regularly clicking open her compact, rolling more lipstick onto each sufficient coat of it, clicking it closed, Mrs. Ruth gazed around the park. Out on the field, not far from her stood Joe DiMaggio, walled in by adoring reporters. Joe Louis stood close. Strolling around the new grass, having a swell time like college kids in Fort Lauderdale, were Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford. Clutching a black cane Toots Shor watched the men on the field. It must have seemed impossible to Toots that DiMaggio was 61, or that Mantle and Ford were entering middle age: they were kids when...
...April 18, 1923, close to 65,000 fans* flocked to New York's $2.5 million house of baseball. New York Governor Al Smith threw out the first ball. The first one hit into the stands-fittingly-was a game-winning home run by Babe Ruth that beat his old Red Sox teammates 4-1. Ruth's astonishing home-run hitting and his $50,000 salary had made baseball a different game and caused many to say the new stadium should have been called Ruth Field...
...last Thursday's reopening, sold out eight days in advance, Bob Shawkey, the starting pitcher in the 1923 opener, threw out the first ball. Five of his and Ruth's teammates from the 1923 Yankees (World Series winners that year) were on hand-Waite Hoyt, "Jumping Joe" Dugan, Hinkey Haines, Whitey Witt and Oscar Roettger. The youthful crowd greeted the old heroes with no more than polite applause and saved the biggest ovation for Mickey Mantle, the most nearly contemporary demigod introduced. Even Joe DiMaggio failed to produce much of an explosion among the watchers. Because...