Word: star
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russia accepted it all as a true picture of contemporary U.S. life. A Russian girl went to the opening with U.S. Correspondent Newbold Noyes Jr. (whose grandfather-no Rasputin-is president of the Washington Evening Star Newspaper Co. and former president of the Associated Press). She regarded Noyes with "deeper and deeper horror as the evening wore on," finally declared: "Mr. Simonov would not write it if this were not the truth. Here it is not as it is in your country. Here one must be able to prove what one says." Declared the Moscow News: "Simonov's play...
...touched off by President Truman's pre-1948 political housecleaning blast, open season on all Communists of fact or fancy is now in full sway. Relies of Dies Committee days are back at their old stand on Capitol Hill, several state legislatures, including Massachusetts, are operating up-to-date star chambers, and in words strangely reminiscent of the days when Shirley Temple was labelled a dangerous red, Hollywood has been threatened with now investigations. Only the Cincinnati baseball team has escaped censure. Pounded for years from press and pulpit, the American public has allowed itself to approve the red-hunting...
...story, is distinguished mainly by the good taste of its omissions from the film-musical-biography formula. There is, for instance, no prophetic publisher, music teacher, wife, mother, or Monty Wooley to rasp "millions will thrill to your voice some day, Al." Instead, the gradual development of a star personality is shown, with little sentimental emphasis on either the ups or the downs. Again, although there is the usual trumped up battle between the hero's music and his wife, it is less ferocious and more human than in the Gershwin and Porter epics, and ends on a breakup instead...
...took him just one month to organize the company which had operated Lone Star for the Government. U.S. Steel made Carpenter move even faster. He promptly rounded up his old Lone Star Steel associates-ranchers, oilmen, bankers. There was Robert L. Thornton, the boisterous, robust president of Dallas' third largest (Mercantile National) bank. Once a sharecropper, Thornton describes himself as "a mule in carriage harness," has pushed through some notable projects (e.g., a 33-story skyscraper erected in Dallas during the war) with the exhortation: "Put on the collar and hamestring...
...Days. Already they had an option to buy Lone Star for $7,500,000 (with no initial down payment), and three of the Oklahoma mines. But WAA insisted on additional operating capital of $1,000,000, to be raised within ten days. So Carpenter & friends organized a financial posse, struck out for the red clay hills around Daingerfield. At crossroad gatherings and town rallies, they sold thousands of shares of stock, got some $100,000 from Longview (pop. 13,758) alone...