Word: star
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coombs is captain of the visiting team and has been its star hurler and nephew of the famous Jack Coombs of Philadelphia Athletics fame and so far gives every indication of following in his uncle's footsteps...
Helen Morgan, star of the stage Show Boat, cast in the prolog of the picture to sing some of her songs, was a 16-year-old shopgirl when a group of Chicago admirers bought her a ticket to Montreal where she won $1,000 in a beauty contest. Later, in the cast of George White's Scandals, she began to sing songs sitting, droop-lipped, on a piano; then in Americana, then in her own night club, she climbed from the piano-top to success. When Miami persuaded Universal to hold the film premiere of Show Boat...
...Glenn '30, playing third attack for the Crimson, displayed the most outstanding ability of the day. Scoring one of Harvard's points, his accurate passing was largely instrumental in the caging of the remainder. Searles, who held down the third attack position for the visitors, was the individual star of the Springfield twelve...
Reginald Fincke '32, and Charles Devens '32, who composed the star battery of the Groton School nine last year, will be the probable starting battery for the Freshmen...
...certain that he will be in one of the nine matches. The match between Tarangoli and B. H. Whitbeck '29, in the first singles promises to be the feature of the afternoon. Whitbeck lost but one match on the Southern trip and that to C. Alphonso Smith, a national star, while Tarangoli is the holder of the Metropolitan Mens' Indoor Championship...