Word: star
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Advance S.O.S. Headquarters in Valognes, France, August 1944, Lee had to dine off gold-edged china and gold-encrusted goblets. Why criticize him now for what he and the brass did all through the war ? Once a star goes on an officer's shoulders they expect to be treated as a deity. ... It will all be "whitewashed" as usual. . . . That's the Army...
...French because he had once been acceptable to the Vichy regime. He was lean, dark, and a few inches shorter than Dee-Dee. He had been married twice before-to Dominican Dictator Trujillo's daughter Flor de Oro, and to Danielle Darrieux, the pert and sexy French film star (Mayerling), who had once been marked for death by the French underground. Around Paris nightclubs, everybody knew eager, ardent Rubi...
...makes a very good living as CBS's curator of comedy, but he doesn't approve of radio. Longtime writer-director-co-star of Easy Aces, he is an expert on the medium he loves to pan: "Now take the rating system. That's the stupidest thing I ever heard of. What do you think would happen if a drama critic said Finian's Rainbow was a good, solid 10.4?" In the old days, Ace scornfully poohpoohed Easy Aces' consistently low Hooperating by explaining that "the people who are listening to me are so crazy...
...season was the witch, decked out in a grotesque sausage-shaped nose (see cut), sung by Ruth Kobart, 23, a graduate of Chicago's American Conservatory of Music. Critics thought that Lemonade Opera might have uncovered a potential star in Juilliard-trained Soprano Mary Paull, who sang Donna Anna in Don Giovanni (and who translated the operas into English...
Into New York harbor one day last week steamed a chunky, single-funneled, single-masted liner with a cruiser stern. She was the British Cunard White Star Line's 13,700-ton ship Media, the first new liner to be built for the transatlantic service since the war. The British, although stalled in other industries, were losing no time getting their new merchant ships afloat...