Word: sta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...North Philadelphia railroad sta tion a few weeks ago, an autograph-hunting youngster asked George Preston Marshall : "Are you the coach?" Owner Marshall, whose Washington Redskins (once top-rankers in the National Professional Foot ball League) had just taken a 49-10-14 drubbing from the Philadelphia Eagles, brushed the kid .off with two cryptic words: "Not today." It was quite an admission for the volatile, self-styled genius who sometimes hired coaches to run his team, supercoaches to run the coaches-and then ran the whole thing himself...
Coney by the Arno. During the past month, the party had carried on a national fund-raising campaign for the Italian Communist press. Florence's four-day Fèsta dell' Unità (sponsored by the Communist daily Unità) was the grand finale. For weeks, 200 workmen had labored to build a kind of Marxist Coney Island...
...Dixieland) combo into town, proclaiming that his life was devoted "to imposing good music on the Swiss dance hall." He got more sympathy than applause. But French Clarinetist Claude Luter, who learned his style from old King Oliver records, got his usual stamping raves. And when Gösta Törner's All-Star...
Inside Sofia's National Theater, 1,000 delegates rhythmically clapped their hands and set up a monotone chant, "Dimitrov, Stalin, Dimitrov, Sta-lin." Led by Premier Georgi Dimitrov, Bulgarian Communist bigwigs and visitors from 18 foreign Communist parties strode up to the stage. The first congress since 1922 of the Bulgarian Communist Party was called to order. By week's end, it had mapped out a program to fit the line from a Communist Youth song: "In five years, the moon will look down and will not recognize Bulgaria...
Early one morning last week, Sta-vroula's body was discovered in a courtyard three floors below a prison window. To squeeze through the tiny window on her way to death, Stavroula had had to remove her costly fur coat and Paris dress...