Word: star
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...routine training flight. On a sunny morning this week, the sleek T.W.A. Constellation, Star of Athens, swung low over the Brandy wine light, skimmed north up Delaware Bay. The lighthouse-keeper heard a jarring explosion, then two more. An enormous pillar of smoke shot up from the pool of gasoline flames on the water. By the time fishing boats and the Coast Guard reached the scene, all that was left of the Constellation and its four-man crew were some floating wreckage, a few bits of burned flesh and charred clothing...
These losses, which Rank can ill afford, have taught him to change his way of treating his stars. He had been content to make verbal contracts with them. But when Phyllis Calvert, the No. 2 female star in Britain, went to Hollywood to visit and came back with a written contract, he decided that he had better get tougher. (He refuses to make another picture with Calvert, saying sadly: "I have turned her picture to the wall.") Rank now leashes his people with seven-year contracts before letting them loose in Hollywood...
...James Mason and the city of Belfast co-star in Carol Reed's brilliant, uneven allegorical melodrama about a fugitive killer and the people he meets (TIME, March...
...Buster. Assistant U.S. Attorney General John Francis Sonnett ended a Justice Department guessing-game last week by taking over as antitrust chief from Wendell Berge, retiring to enter a Washington law firm. His successful prosecution of the John Lewis contempt case made him the Justice Department's brightest star. Handsome, young (34) John Sonnett likes tough, tricky cases. He will have plenty-44 of the U.S.'s biggest corporations are defendants in pending antitrust suits...
...film's star (Michael Redgrave) is something more special: a Czech who has escaped from a Nazi concentration camp, and is hiding under the identity of a dead English officer, whose wife (Rachel Kempson) he falls in love with by correspondence. The picture patiently tells the story of all these men-and a few others-from the time of their capture by the Germans in June 1940 to the hour of their release...