Word: star
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After seeing considerable action in the next year's All Star game, Harry moved into the National Professional League, accepting the ovations of vitriolic E. L. "Curly" Lambeau, coach of the Green Bay Packers...
...last week at the rain-drenched, mist-shrouded shipyard of John Brown & Co. There they cheered as Princess Elizabeth, in a new green coat and beret-like hat, with young Philip Mountbatten at her side, swung a bottle against the towering bow of the new Cunard White Star liner Caronia. Down the ways slid the 34,000-tonner, the biggest passenger ship launched anywhere since the war. The hull was towed to a dockyard basin, where it will need another ten months of outfitting before it is ready for service...
Paris admires a tiny, intense chanteuse named Edith Piaf. An itinerant acrobat's daughter with a patched-skirt childhood, she specializes in songs about love-battered girls. Last week, as the star of a continental variety show, Mlle. Piaf began singing (mostly in French) her drab ballads on Broadway. She flung them out resonantly, acted them out skillfully and sometimes appealingly. But she was not half as much fun as nine very gay young Frenchmen on the program, billed as Les Compagnons de la Chanson, who sing a song well and spoof a song wonderfully...
...that he was a musician. In three years he learned to scrub passably on the cello, studied composition at the Moscow Conservatory with Miaskovsky, who had been a pupil of Rimsky-Korsakov. When Aram graduated in 1933, his name was carved on a marble panel, an honor reserved for star pupils. Khachaturian still draws heavily on his native Armenian and Georgian folk themes and rhythms for his symphonies and concertos, and on Ravel and Stravinsky, among others, for his handling of them. The three living composers he admires most are Stravinsky, Prokofiev and Shostakovich. (Russian expatriate Stravinsky...
Wingham revealed that a probe had unearthed the fact that black and orange were rewarding their star fullback, Tcheep Plated Silver, and their ace passing combination of Troilus and Cressida, with used copies of the Yale Daily News...