Word: star
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moscow, for instance, there are eight daily papers and each is supposed to represent a definite state organism. Pravda is the voice of the party's Central Committee; Izvestia, the organ of the Government. Red Star is the Army newspaper; Red Fleet, the Navy newspaper...
...individual being subordinate to the state, names do not make news in the Soviet press - except, occasionally, when Molotov's daughter wins a silver star in school or a Russian does or says something the party considers worth identifying him with. Consequently, the wealth of revealing human interest stories so prevalent in the U.S. press is not available for the edification of the Russian reader or the foreign correspondent...
Bedside Manners. "I pushed into the room," wrote pushy Clark Lee, an A.P. star who turned Hearstling (with I.N.S.) in midwar. "Tojo lay back in a small armchair, his eyes closed. . . . Blood oozed slowly from a wound just above his heart. . . . The American reporters pushed past Tojo, brushing his knees, talking loudly and excitedly. Photographers shoved their cameras in the wounded man's face...
...Last Look Around (295 pp.)-Clark Lee -Duell, Sloan & Pearce ($2.75); Star-Spangled Mikado (282 pp.)-Frank Kelley and Cornelius Ryan-McBride...
Director Bill Bingham and his assistants have organized a full program of sports which includes intramural softball and baseball, tennis, rowing, volley ball, and swimming. In addition, depending on the demand, an informal "all-star" nine will be hand-picked by intramural director Dolph Samborski from the various House teams. This squad will take on whatever local collegiate competition is available...