Word: star
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your article on Roy Roberts of the Kansas City Star [TIME, Feb. 24], you neglected to mention the great pulse of public opinion. When the Star and Times were "bedridden" it was tough not to see what Li'l Abner was doing. However, nine out of ten people then and now would drop the Star like a hot potato if any other kind of daily sheet would only come to town. The people's prayer is: please, God, send one, so we can have both sides of an issue and not have just what one paper likes shoved...
Actually, the Congress was not hopelessly behind schedule. Few Congresses have accomplished much in their first nine weeks. But Leader Bob Taft was sensitive. He blamed the Democrats for "deliberate" stalling-a defense which roused the conservative Washington Star's Cartoonist Jim Berryman to gibe right back. He threatened to break the lull by calling the Senate into daily and nightly sessions. This week, with other party leaders, he held a unity meeting with the G.O.P. freshmen and promised them two places on the G.O.P. Policy Committee...
...Better to Buy a Guitar." In Moscow, though the sun was out when Marshall's plane landed, things looked scarcely brighter. Andrei Vishinsky appeared, wear ing the steel grey Soviet diplomatic uniform with its star like a marshal's. The U.S. Secretary of State wore a plain overcoat and a neat grey Homburg. Reported one U.S. correspondent: "So in these strange times, a civilian dressed up like a general met a general dressed like a civilian...
...that ball bounces funny on the boards," breezed through his first three matches so easily that his hair (a crew cut partly grown out) stayed plastered down. In the semifinals, he met 34-year-old Sidney B. Wood Jr., onetime Wimbledon champion who now (with pro star Don Budge) runs a fashionable Manhattan laundry. Time & again Wood showed that he could still hit a perfect overhead while leaping backwards, still nick the sidelines with smoking passing shots. Wood's laundry customers, out in strength, applauded wildly...
...collapsing grandstand had interrupted the Wisconsin-Purdue game at half-time (TIME, March 10), so a playoff of the second half was ordered. Wisconsin, which could clinch the title by winning, had to begin last week's half-game with its star, Walt Lautenbach, already four-fifths of the way out on fouls...