Word: star
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Lou Boudreau was a baseball and basketball star at Illinois, he decided to try for the big leagues, and set himself a time limit. If, by four years after leaving college, he hadn't made it, he would go into business. He made it in less than two. At 24, Boudreau became the youngest big-league manager in history.* Last week, after six seasons as playing boss of the Cleveland Indians, Shortstop Boudreau was still the youngest manager in the business. He was also managing the hottest team in both leagues...
Most of the music is all right but routine; most of the dancing well carried out but not very freshly conceived. And though Co-Star Jack Haley (Higher and Higher) is generally pleasant and useful, in the end it's up to Miss Lillie; and wondrous though she can be, she's not quite up to the job. Given a genuinely funny sketch-such as Moss Hart's about a superstitious maid who unnerves an actress on opening night and Bea is colossal. Given a reasonable chance to shine-as in two or three other numbers...
...television got a new playwright when Gertrude Lawrence starred in a lavish Theatre Guild treatment of Bernard Shaw's Great Catherine. The Guild and NBC spared no kopeks to give the telecast an opulent, St. Petersburg flavor. Czarina Lawrence had a star-emblazoned court (David Wayne, Joan McCracken, Erik Rhodes, Micheal MacLiammóir), required six sets in NBC's big, new Studio 8G (TIME, May 3). Actress Lawrence could have claimed to be making, as well as re-creating history: ten years ago, in a telecast of Susan and God, she was the first big star...
...curtain fell, James entered the theater by the stage door. He was told that all had gone well. The star, "with incredible cruelty," led him to the middle of the stage. "For a moment or so James faced the storm, his round face white, his mouth opening and shutting." Then the star dragged him back into the wings. A contemporary account suggested that there had been a cabal against the play, and that the hissing began according to a prearranged signal. Says Author Nowell-Smith: "The problem is perhaps now insoluble...
...adjoining field, George Hanford's Freshmen pulled an upset by scalping the Indian freshmen 6 to 4. Dick Hansen was brilliant in flattening Dartmouth attack star Smitty Smith every time he leaped into the air for a shot...