Word: star
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nowadays, when the head stripper of the show reaches the climax of her performance, the management turns a protecting dark blue light on the proceedings, wrapping the star in an indigo robe thick enough to confuse even the sharpest eyes; and one can never tell whether he is seeing the real thing or not. The humor is uninhibited only to the extent that it would be exceedingly embarrassing to take a girl to hear it, even for laughs. At intervals a motley band of women of all sizes and shapes troops back and forth across the stage, each with...
...Constellation Star of Hollywood droned over the Atlantic at 250 m.p.h., bound from Newfoundland to the Azores. It was 7:25 p.m. All seemed well. At 19,000 feet she was well above the overcast, and the T.W.A. ship was pressurized for the comfort of 21 passengers and the crew. In a couple of hours the moon would be up. Navigator George Hart climbed into the astrodome, a transparent plastic bubble atop the fuselage, and started to shoot the stars with his sextant...
While the Coast Guard began a hopeless search, the Star of Hollywood dropped to 10,000 feet and retraced the 500 miles back to Gander. T.W.A. and other operators ordered their Constellations to keep below 12,000 feet (where the cabin need not be pressurized) until astrodomes could be made safer and navigators supplied with safety harnesses. That was just about what the Army had done...
Rita Hayworth, through work at last in a picture written, produced and directed by husband Orson Welles (co-star), said she was also through with Orson. Explained Rita: "I just can't take his genius any more...
...Irvin, le coach of Les Canadiens for the past six years, is not modest about them. He calls them "the greatest ice hockey team the world has ever seen." From Conn Smythe, rough-&-tumble manager of the rival Toronto Maple Leafs, recently came a less biased tribute: his all-star sextet had five of Les Canadiens on it. Most of their players were homegrown kids who learned the game on Montreal's frozen ponds...