Word: ruth
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...Babe Ruth was a champion at almost everything he did. The dominant player in baseball history, he transformed the way the game was played. Off the field, he could scarf down 18-egg omelets, chug-a-lug boilermakers (ice cubes and all) and, it has been claimed, make love seven times a night. A beloved boor, he also liked to show off a silver loving cup he won for placing first in a flatulence contest. Yet the Babe, product of a Baltimore reform school, came up short in one area. "My grandfather," says Ruth descendant Thomas Stevens, "always regretted that...
McArthur appointed Ruth R. McMullin, former CEOof John Wiley & Sons Inc., as president of thepublishing division the same year Sahlman wasnamed chair of the board of directors...
Otto found writing ideas everywhere. His fondness for roses blossomed into a book about the joys of that flower. His love for the piano led to a biography of pianist Glenn Gould. For years, Otto and former senior editor Ruth Brine, a skilled violinist, met regularly during the lunch hour to play duets. "We had three-sonata lunches," Brine recalls. She once dreamed that the sessions had exhausted all the music in the world, but Otto reassured her that that could never be the case. For Otto Alva Friedrich, there was always another sonata to play, another rose to cultivate...
Aaron, one of the first Blacks in the major leagues, broke Babe Ruth's seemingly insurmountable career home run record in 1974 and was inducted into the Hall of Fame...
Beach Birds for Camera. Video screening and discussion with Merce Cunningham, Ruth Page Visiting Artist. Science Center...