Word: snyder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...farm girl from David City, Neb., Ruth was singing in obscure Chicago nightclubs when she first encountered a Runyonesque character who called himself Colonel Martin Snyder. Actually, the colonel had been born Moses Snyder in a West Side slum, and the closest he had come to the military life was in the Chicago gang wars. Known familiarly as "The Gimp" because of a pronounced limp attributed to 17 shotgun slugs in his leg, Snyder soon proved his ability as a show-business Svengali. He married Ruth and managed her from dingy nightspots to nationwide popularity. But the incessant obbligato...
...Anvil Books (Van Nostrand), all originals, with such no-nonsense titles as Making of the Modern French Mind by Hans Kohn and The Age of Reason by Louis L. Snyder...
...week's end Mamie Eisenhower's cold was better, and she was up and about; White House Physician Howard M. Snyder said her health was fine except for a slight since-childhood heart condition that at times limits her activity. The President's sniffles had cleared up; his bursitis was well enough for him to play some golf and to swim in the White House pool (which he dislikes, but does on Dr. Snyder's orders...
...meet the insistence of the White House physician, Dr. Howard Snyder, that he continue to get plenty of air and exercise, he will probably use closer retreats than Palm Springs. Preparations are being pushed at the Eisenhower farm at Gettysburg to make it ready for weekending...
Working with Dr. Snyder will be Doctors Edward S. Murray and Robert Shihman, specialists in virus diseases...