Word: star
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alexander Northrop ran a good race in the mile, far outclassed at the start as he was by Cunningham, Venske, and Ray Mahannah of Drake. Bob Haydock, star Crimson high-jumper, did not compete, having injured his leg in the Millrose Games last week...
...pugnacious C. I. 0. American Newspaper Guild last week ended the longest strike in its history. Seven months ago the Scripps League Seattle Star hired A. F. of L. teamsters to supplant Guild office workers in its circulation department. That started the strike. After a four-day shutdown, the Star's, presses started up again, managed to get out a paper every day of the strike. Last week's armistice gave neither side the full fruits of victory. Reinstated were 45 editorial and advertising office Guildsmen. Nineteen circulation men, recently ordered reinstated by the National Labor Relations Board...
...reason, except that some future age may star a Jeanette MacDonald in a film of the war. Cast opposite Allan Jones, a spy for the French Army with whom she inconveniently but most romantically falls in love, in appropriate Spanish milien, she sings and dances her way to a victory for Wellington and the liberation of Spain. Other good performances are turned in by Warren William and Douglas Dumbrille as opposing members of the military profession. Yet Jeanette is the sole raison d'etre of the picture, and as a good performance of hers it deserves attention...
Powers has lived up to his name in the free-style events, usually the 100, and seems to be the type of swimmer who will end up equally proficient in all distances free-style. Bosworth, former Exeter star, has a graceful, effortless backstroke second only to Graham, Cummin '38, Varsity flash. "Bozzie": usually is entered in the 50-yard free-style as well, and swims the event substantially under 25 seconds...
Died. Hugh Graham Baron Atholstan, 89, founder and for 69 years proprietor of the Montreal Star; after long illness; in Montreal...