* 1959 – Ruth Ann Swenson, American soprano

* Carpenter, Ruth Ann ; Finley, Carrie E. Healthy Eating Every Day.

* Leif, Ruth Ann, Homage to Oceania.

* 1935 – Ruth Ann Minner, American politician, businesswoman and 72nd Governor of Delaware

* January 17 – Ruth Ann Minner, Governor of Delaware

She meets Sister Husband ( Stockard Channing ), a woman who runs the Welcome Wagon in town, and mistakenly believes Novalee to be her long-lost relative Ruth Ann.

Novalee goes to Sister Husband's house and explains that she is not Ruth Ann.

Seven of Delaware's governors have come from Milford: Daniel Rogers ( who served 1797-99 ), Joseph Haslet ( 1811 – 14 ), William Tharp ( 1847 – 1851 ), Peter F. Causey ( 1855 – 59 ), William Burton ( 1859 – 63 ), William T. Watson ( 1895 – 97 ), and Ruth Ann Minner ( 2001 – 09 ).

In October 1995 it was announced that Mrs. Ruth Ann Holland has left $ 500, 000 to the Library Foundation in her will.

Grant Town is also the location of a number of the stories of the West Virginia ghost story anthology The Telltale Lilac Bush, by Fairmont State University professor Ruth Ann Musick.

* Ruth Ann Flynn ....

Yoakam was born in Pikeville, Kentucky, the son of Ruth Ann, a key-punch operator, and David Yoakam, a gas-station owner.

The opening night cast included Shirley Booth as Ruth and Jo Ann Sayers as Eileen, with Richard Quine and Morris Carnovsky in supporting roles.

Other reports say that Cohn also approached Ina Claire, Tallulah Bankhead, Ruth Chatterton, Constance Bennett, Ann Harding, Kay Francis and Joan Crawford.

After more than 12, 000 responses from people aged 4 to 85, the paper ultimately hired two: Jeffrey Zaslow, then a 28-year-old Wall Street Journal reporter, and Diane Crowley, a 47-year-old lawyer, teacher and daughter of Ruth Crowley, who had been the original Ann Landers columnist from 1943 until 1955.

Many of the top entertainers of the era ( including W. C. Fields, Eddie Cantor, Josephine Baker, Fanny Brice, Ann Pennington, Bert Williams, Will Rogers, Ruth Etting, Ray Bolger, Helen Morgan, Marilyn Miller, Ed Wynn, Gilda Gray, Nora Bayes, Sophie Tucker, and others ) appeared in the shows.

* 1991 – Eating Between the Lines ISBN 0-7704-2705-7 ( nominated: Ruth Schwartz Award ; winner: Book-of-the-Year CACL, Ann Conner-Brimer Award )

to Zed: A Canadian Abecedarium ISBN 0-88995-222-1 ( nominated: Mr. Christie Award, Ann Conner-Brimer Award, Ruth Schwartz Award )

* 2003 – Ann and Seamus ISBN 0-88899-561-X ( nominated: Governor General's Award, Mr. Christie Award, Ruth Schwartz Award and five others ; made into a folk opera of the same name )

In 1996, Lobo and her late mother, Ruth Ann Lobo, collaborated on a book entitled The Home Team, which dealt with Ruth Ann's battle with breast cancer.

* June 15 – Philadelphia Phillies first baseman Eddie Waitkus is shot in Chicago by deranged fan Ruth Ann Steinhagen.

In 1987, he and his first wife, Ruth Ann, wrote Building For The Master: By Design ( ISBN 0-940609-00-2 ).

Dallas also has helped launch the careers of such American singers as Renée Fleming, Diana Soviero, and Ruth Ann Swenson.

Kaufman, appointed by Governor Ruth Ann Minner to fill the vacancy created by Joe Biden ( who resigned to become Vice President of the United States ), was not a candidate in the special election.

Ruth Ann Minner ( born January 17, 1935 ) is an American politician and businesswoman from Milford, in Kent County, Delaware.

Minner was born Ruth Ann Coverdale, at Slaughter Neck in Cedar Creek Hundred, Sussex County, Delaware, near Milford.

In her second inaugural address in January 2005, Minner concluded with this description of her philosophy: " for Ruth Ann Minner, farmer, gardener and daughter of a sharecropper, it is simply this: Work hard.

Carney sought the Democratic nomination for the office of Governor in 2008, as incumbent Governor Ruth Ann Minner was constitutionally barred from seeking a third term.

Ruth Ann Minner of Delaware

In 2001, Governor Ruth Ann Minner chose Markell to chair the Information Services Task Force, which developed and implemented recommendations to modify the state's management of information technology.

Spence endorsed Burris, the eventual Republican nominee, who went on to lose the general election to then Lieutenant Governor Ruth Ann Minner.

As the twenties grew older, and as radio broadcasts of baseball games began to involve more and more people daily in the doings of the professionals, the great hitters ( always led by Babe Ruth ) overshadowed the game so that pitchers were nearly of no account.

Ruth Gordon began her career early, posing as a picture baby for Mellin's food.

At age seven Ruth began to write short verses and read any book she could get her hands on.

That summer Ruth fell deeply in love with Stanley as he began to visit her more, and accepted his proposal for marriage.

She began to publish poems under different pseudonyms — Ruth Stanhope, Edgar Stanhope, and Anne Singleton.

Other early influences include Ruth Stout and Esther Deans, who pioneered " no-dig gardening methods ", and Masanobu Fukuoka who, in the late 1930s in Japan, began advocating no-till orchards, gardens and natural farming.

“ The 1930 ’ s marked a time when Albuquerque families began moving to the North Valley in greater numbers, some buying and restoring abandoned adobe homes, others proceeding to build large new houses .” United States Representatives Albert Simms and his wife Ruth Hanna McCormick were among these families and built two houses designed by Santa Fe architect John Gaw Meem on the site of the current-day Los Poblanos Ranch.

The eldest of six daughters, Chao was born in Taipei, Taiwan, to Ruth Mulan Chu Chao ( 趙朱木蘭 Zhào Zhū Mùlán ), a historian, and Dr. James S. C. Chao ( 趙錫成博士 Zhào Xīchéng ), who began his career as a merchant mariner and later, after getting established in New York, built a successful shipping company ( Foremost Shipping Co .).

The storyline began with the introduction of the Barnhurst Five and saw both staff and inmates held hostage by armed mercenaries who had broken into the prison to spring high profile remand prisoner Ruth Ballinger ( Lindy Davies ) on the orders of her drug baron husband.

Expecting Rae to resign, Bud Wildman, Ruth Grier and Richard Johnston began preparing campaigns to succeed him as leader of the Ontario NDP.

In 1843, Franck began work on his first non-chamber work, the oratorio Ruth.

Ruth Crawford was born in East Liverpool, Ohio, and began her music education at age 6 with her first piano lesson.

The rationale for the designated hitter rule is that, with a few exceptions — most notably Babe Ruth, who began his career as a pitcher with the Boston Red Sox — pitchers are usually weak hitters who ordinarily perform once every four or five games.

In April 1982, 61-year-old friend and business partner Ruth Monroe began living with Puente in her upstairs apartment, but soon died from an overdose of codeine and Tylenol.

In the mid 1910s, she began her studies at the newly created Denishawn School of Dancing and Related Arts, founded by Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn, at which she would stay until 1923.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and William Phillips ( editor ) | William Phillips at a International PEN | PEN meeting in New Delhi, Sept 20, 1962. During World War II she lived in Hendon in London, experienced the Blitz and began to speak English rather than German.

A focus on women ’ s spirituality and goddess heritage emerged from artists such as Kay Gardner, Z Budapest, and, later on, Ruth Barrett ; lesbian comedians such as Kate Clinton also began to be featured, often serving as witty emcees ( comedy would expand substantially throughout the next three decades.

In 1995-96 the Pointer Sisters returned to their original jazzy incarnation touring nationally in Ain't Misbehavin ': during this tour issues with June Pointer came to the fore as June Pointer missed many performances-understudy Wendy Edmead replaced her on these occasions-and in 2002 Ruth Pointer's daughter Issa Pointer began performing with the Pointer Sisters in June Pointer's stead.

Initially solo artists, Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn began collaborating on work in 1914.

Lee Ruth Davis died a few months before testimony began, but Minnie Lee Langley, Arnett Goins, Wilson Hall, Willie Evans, and several descendants testified, as did a clinical psychologist from the University of Florida, and experts who offered testimony about property damages.

Born Ruth Shirley Wohl in Brooklyn, New York, Wallis began her career singing jazz and cabaret standards-with such bands as Isham Jones and Benny Goodman on road tours for a couple of months ; but gained fame in the 1940s and 1950s for her risqué, satirical songs, rife with double entendre that she wrote herself.

As such, the global fair trade movement officially began with the founding of Ten Thousand Villages more than 60 years ago through the work of Edna Ruth Byler, a pioneering businesswoman.

In the early 1920s, a trend began of fans flocking in great numbers to the stadium to see baseball's rising stars from opposing teams ; when the New York Yankees came to Washington, the chance to see Babe Ruth brought large crowds to the ballpark.

William Knowland later began an affair with Ruth Moody which lasted until her death in 1961.