Word: star
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...star line seems to possess all that such a group should: outsized ends, tough, rangy tackles, fast guards, and a blocky pivot man. Wingmen hail from the Deacons and the Bunnies, with Bill Eaton and Joe McVicker respectively on the flanks. Biggest sector of the line is the tackles, where Leverett's "Moose" Chilcott and "Bull" Nozak from the Yard can throw a total of 460 pounds at the opposition...
...Landers, who has been selling the world's best seller for 35 years, has on his shelves even greater bargains for non-English speaking peoples. Three cents now supplies the South Sea missionary with portions of the Book in pamphlet form, and last year the Sloop Morning Star VI bore 2000 copies of the Four Gospels in native tongues to King John of Kusiae, and other potentates on the Marshall and Caroline Islands...
...Freshmen are starting with only one standout, former Middlesex star Joe Clark, but the picture there is not as bleak as it sounds, for Coach Corey Winn is used to moulding his squads from players new to the game, and feels he has plenty of "potentialities" among his candidates...
...Crimson backfield star, whose brilliant play as a pass intercepter placed him among the nation's leaders last fall and earned him the nickname "Radar Ken," has won his Varsity letter three years running. Used exclusively on defense in 1946 because his arm was in a cast, he started six games this season as offensive quarterback...
...desk" (the kidney-shaped one in the office Flo Ziegfeld used to use). It seemed, wrote Rose, that somebody's spinster Aunt Helen had died, and when the minister drew back the casket lid at the funeral, what should be inside but the uniformed corpse of a two-star general? The embarrassed undertaker said they might as well go ahead with the service. Aunt Helen had apparently been buried in Arlington Cemetery that morning, and only an act of Congress could...