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...closed after one performance. The reason was not savage reviews-though they were mostly scowling-but a plagiarism suit. Slapped on the producers just before opening night, it charged that British Playwright Morgan had lifted the Starcross story from The Hidden Hero, a novel by Manhattan's Stanley Kauffmann, editor of Ballantine Books...
...Kauffmann felt that the U.N., which he helped to form, has not lived up to the high hopes which the world had had for it in 1945. He stressed, however, that it was the best organization at the moment and should be maintained at all costs. He emphasized the importance of contacts between harmonious nations...
...Samuel Kauffmann, 54, was the head janitor on the sixth floor, who came to the paper when Kauffmann did, 31 years ago. Alongside Editor McKelway, 57, sat a Negro press helper who got a job on the Star in 1920, when McKelway came to work for the paper. For the occasion, the Old Lady showed she could still kick up her skirts. To the "Live a little" tune, the Star promotion manager good-naturedly needled the staff: "You've got to lie a little, boast a little/You've gotto make like the [Washington] Post a little...
...Star is not only edited for the whole family, but has been published by the same families for 85 years. Fifteen years after its birth it was bought by one of its reporters, Crosby S. Noyes, together with New York World Washington Correspondent George W. Adams, Ohio Publisher Samuel Kauffmann, and two others who were soon bought out. The Noyes-Adams-Kauffmann families still own the paper. By inheritance, the Star's stock has already passed to the fourth and fifth generations...
...boast that no one is ever fired or laid off "except for very grave reasons." The paper's front-page trademark feature for years was the fussy, inoffensive cartooning of the late Pulitzer-Prizewinning Clifford K. Berryman, and now it is the work of his son Jim. President Kauffmann sees no reason to change the Old Lady's successful ways. Says he: "Our dedication is to the voteless citizens of this city...