Word: star
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year, with a four-year average of 92½%, Hunter Roy and the prospering Greenlaw farm were models for miles around. Last week the Future Farmers of America, of which Hunter is one of 173,000 members, convened in Kansas City, Mo. under the auspices of the Kansas City Star to confer their coveted honor of Star Farmer, which carries a $500 prize. "I sure would like to win that," said Hunter, who did not think he would because last year's Star Farmer, Robert Lee Bristow, now assistant manager of a farmer's cooperative, hailed from...
Seven weeks ago the Pirates were rated one of the strongest teams in the League. Owner Rooney, who won some $200,000 on horses last year, had rounded up the most expensive collection of stars in major-league football. No. 1 star: Rhodes Scholar Byron (''Whizzer") White, at $15,000 for eleven games...
...1910s, when shapely, grey-eyed Geraldine Farrar was the most shimmering star of Manhattan's Metropolitan, operatic prima donnas were the world's most galumptious glamor girls. In 1922, before her cult had time to die, 40-year-old Soprano Farrar retired from the operatic stage to live a secluded life on a Connecticut farm. Last week she published her autobiography,* a curiously constructed narrative half of which is written in the third person as though seen through the eyes of Soprano Farrar's deceased mother...
...carries a dedication, quoted from LIFE, to "William Allen White ... a living symbol of small-town simplicity and kindliness and common sense." Unsentimental cinemaddicts, however, will perceive that the real purpose of the picture is not so much to pay tribute to that celebrated Kansan as to carry its star, Bob Burns, a step closer to the peculiar niche of public approbation once occupied by the late Will Rogers...
...army). A fascist and an admirer of Mussolini, Vespa nevertheless believes that "the nations of the world are committing a most terrible mistake in dealing with the Japanese as though they were a civilized people." The authenticity of Secret Agent of Japan is vouched for by Edgar Snow (Red Star Over China) and by Harold John Timperley, Far Eastern correspondent of the Manchester Guardian. Without such confirmation, readers might question Vespa's story, not because he fails to cite chapter and verse for his statements, but because its account of Japanese rule is such an unvaried, stupefying record...