Word: star
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: In TIME, June 20, p. 23, col. 1, under MILESTONES -you announce the engagement of Phyllis Cleveland of Boston. In a footnote below you say, "Not to be con fused with famed Phyllis Cleveland, co-star (with the Four Marx Brothers) in The Cocoanuts. This, however, is your mistake as the Phyllis Cleveland of Boston, who is to wed J. Ainsworth Morgan, is the Phyllis Cleveland of stage fame, who ap peared in The Cocoanuts. H. L. W. P. S. Your magazine, criticizing others, deserves to be criticized. Cleveland, Ohio...
Governor Farrington was born in Orono, Me., in 1871. After having been a reporter on various Maine newspapers, he became one of the founders and managing editor of the Rockland (Me.) Daily Star. In 1894 he went to Hawaii as managing editor of the Pacific Commercial Advertiser, Honolulu. He served on the Territorial Board of Education and in the Republican Territorial Commission (1906-07). While Pacific Institute delegates met at Honolulu, Kilauea (largest active volcano in the world) erupted, flooded its eight-mile-around crater with molten lava. Visitors from Hilo (30 miles away) were driven back from the crater...
...stalwarts take their sport with some seriousness. Twenty thousand pounds were contributed by Indian Rajahs, princes, potentates to send these athletes to the U. S. and equip them with a string of 45 international mounts. They travel as a unit, not, as in former years, a group of individual star players. The manager, Col. H. A. Tomkinson, said: "This will be a team and not just four players. ... All of England is behind us and it is a united effort All the players are fit and well and quite ready to begin playing fast games as soon as the ponies...
...From star heat may be calculated star ages, star diameters, star compositions. Star heat is undiminished by billions of miles of passage through universal vacancy, but when the radiations enter Earth's heavy atmosphere they are dispersed, feebled and as difficult to detect and measure as a whisper in a hurricane. Star heat is best studied at altitudes where Earth's atmosphere is rare. To rare-aired Mount Wilson, therefore, went Dr. Abbot, where he can introduce starlight reflected from the 100-inch Carnegie Institute sky-reflector into his newest and finest radiometer-an instrument so delicate that...
...Roberta Star Semple is tall; has a soft voice and a clear laugh. She does not know men. Aimee Semple McPherson has been careful to keep men out of her daughter's ken. The girl, however, does know people. On the platform of the Chicago Coliseum, which Mrs. McPherson hired at $1,000 a day to tell about her notorious kidnaping of a year ago (TIME, June 7, 1926 ), the daughter last week followed her mother. She held her audience's attention, put them in a mood of sanctity, but she took no money from them. Mrs. McPherson...