Word: star
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the darkness proved deeper than even the Russians supposed. High-ranking officers in the Red army were reported to be neglecting their Marx and Lenin, and the official army paper Red Star felt obliged to issue a warning. "Soviet generals," it announced, "who fail to pursue such studies will lose out in assignments to responsible military posts." In Britain, where the Lords this time were debating Communist aggression in Western Europe, Lord Pakenham had a word of enlightenment about that as well...
Notre Dame's basketballers felt sorry for themselves. Kevin O'Shea, the star of the team, had a bad knee and indigestion; big Leo Barnhorst said he had a sprained ankle and Johnny Brennan complained of a sore throat. Last week, with stiff upper lips and handsome gold uniforms, Underdog Notre Dame (beaten seven times this season) limped out on the floor at Madison Square Garden to play hot-shot N.Y.U., only undefeated college team...
...article on the disposal of atomic rubbish.) And many a paper feared that voluntary censorship would be an entering wedge. The answer, newsmen felt, is not voluntary censorship but a tightening up of Government organizations to make sure that secrets do not leak. Nevertheless, the group named the Washington Star's craggy Editor Ben McKelway as head of an eight-man committee to think things over and report next month...
...exposing another sort of censorship, Nat S. Finney, 44, Washington correspondent of the Cowles Bros.'s Minneapolis Star and Tribune and Des Moines Register & Tribune, last week won the $500 Raymond Clapper memorial award. Last fall, Finney reported, President Truman had approved a "security code" under which Government employees were forbidden to disclose stories "embarrassing" to Government officials. The code was dumped when Finney led the press howl of protest. At the White House Correspondents' dinner, Finney had the satisfaction of getting his check from President Harry Truman, who had made the bobble...
Last week, 263 sponsors and some 27,000 commercials later, Ben Grauer had come a long way for a baloney salesman. On NBC's big new documentary series, Living-1948 (Sun., 4:35 p.m., NBC), he was the narrator and star. In his nine other regular radio and television jobs, he ran the gamut between straight man and U.N. analyst. The New York Herald Tribune's John Crosby has said with some amazement that Grauer "does everything but sweep out the studio...