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...temerity to star Mrs. Leslie Carter in The Ugly Duckling. The show and its leading lady were outstanding successes. Mrs. Carter worked for Belasco for the next 16 years, quarreling with and leaving him when she married again. Thereafter no star, once wedded, could shine in the Belasco firmament. The suggestion of ruptured romance between Actress Carter and Producer Belasco helped the latter's legend. Successively he discovered, developed, dropped Blanche Bates, Frances Starr, Ina Claire, Lenore Ulrich. Leo Dietrichstein and David Warfield also owe their careers to Producer Belasco. As carefully as he cultivated his famed Anglican clerical...
Robert Tyre Jones Jr. likes being called "Robot, the Mechanical Man of Golf," better than a lot of other names to which sportswriters, their superlatives utterly exhausted, have had resort. Before and since his appearance in the golfing firmament in 1916 (one year after Percy), he has had no peer but Percy, and making oneself a mechanically perfect golfer-when one is equipped with temper, indolence, misgivings and other frailties to which robots are heir-is as satisfactory, when accomplished, as it is difficult...
...Socialist Soviet Republics wields the might of the largest standing army on earth (725,000 men?U. S. Army 136,217). To grasp even a fraction of Stalin's purpose and achievements?which today are mainly economic?one must grapple with no easy map. Like stars in the firmament, like grains of caviar spread by a lavish Russian on his pancakes, are the elements of Stalin's Five-Year Plan...
...Army or the Navy, and that it was unfair to their respective collegiate opponents to play former college stars against them. The Army doubted the truth of the first of these statements and resented any remarks about the proselyting of college athletes. Now the greatest star in the Army firmament proves the truth of the Navy axiom. First, by his attempted honorary resignation, and then by his requested one, Cagle has shown that he never wanted to enter the Army. He wanted to play football. The Navy can now congratulate itself on its stand for it has been proved...
Said Philanthropist Adler: "In giving the planetarium to Chicago, I have a threefold conception. . . . The third is to emphasize that all mankind, rich and poor, powerful and weak, as well as all nations, here and abroad, constitute part of one universe, and that under the great celestial firmament there is no division or cleavage, but rather interdependence and unity...