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...formal and out of place in coat, tie and newsboy cap. He grew up in Pittsburgh's predominantly black Hill District, dropped out of school in the ninth grade and set out to educate himself by devouring books in the library. One of the first was anthropologist Ruth Benedict's Patterns of Culture. "In my plays I sort of work as an anthropologist," he says, "finding those parts of culture, habits and whatnot that embody these people." He soaked up the life of his neighborhood, even dropping in on funerals of people he didn't know just...
...Died. Ruth Hussey, 93, onetime model best known for her Oscar-nominated role as the wisecracking photographer sent with reporter Jimmy Stewart to cover the high-society wedding of Katharine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story; in Thousand Oaks, Calif. Hired by MGM in 1937, reportedly as a threat to keep stars Myrna Loy and Norma Shearer in line, she appeared in more than 40 films, including Northwest Passage, opposite Spencer Tracy, and as athlete Jordan Baker in the 1949 remake of The Great Gatsby...
Monday, April 25. Ruth Reichl reads from and discusses “Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise.” 6 p.m. Free. Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle...
Junior captain Vince Porter skippered as junior Ruth Schlitz and senior Laura Schubert split time at crew in the Crimson’s A-division, finishing anywhere from first to 14th. The A-division took seventh, though their seventh was only a few points out of fourth place...
...middle of lunch, Fisher told "H.V." he was through. At this point, before dessert, H.V., red in the face, excused himself and stalked out. Ironically, when the 1938 Munich crisis heated up, CBS called H.V. to come back and broadcast the crisis because only he understood German. Ruth Brine Kaltenborn Palm Beach, Fla. Draped by Miyake...