Word: star
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hollywood wanted them for a movie short. Pro football, recognizing them as the greatest two-star combination in college football history, put in high bids. The offers piled up. Last week, West Point's touchdown twins, Glenn Davis and Doc Blanchard (along with End Barney Poole), asked the War Department for fall furloughs to take advantage of their $100,000-a-season offers...
Dodger fans understood that Leo had been frustrated almost to distraction in his attempts to marry Movie Star Laraine Day. First, he had to wait for the California courts to grant her a divorce from her first husband (who had as good as called Leo a snake in the grass). When Miss Day's interlocutory decree came through last week, it was with the usual California stipulation that she would have to wait a year before remarrying...
...born airplane business. So last October, Reconstruction Minister Clarence D. Howe began looking around for someone to take over the big Canadair plant, near Montreal, which was operated for the Government during the war by Canadian Vickers Ltd. Howe wanted the plant to go on making the North Star transport, a modified Douglas DC-4, thus 1) keep 7,500 workers in their jobs and 2) preserve the nucleus of an air industry. He could not find a well-heeled Canadian willing to do the job. But last week he found an American corporation: the Electric Boat Co. of Manhattan...
...over a belated discovery: the faculty had quietly abolished this classics requirement, beginning next fall. The paper splashed across Page One an "open letter to the trustees" signed by the Exonian's President John Cowles Jr., 17. (Among the trustees is his father, part owner of the Minneapolis Star-Journal, the Des Moines Register & Tribune, and Look.) Young Cowles obviously thought that the faculty's action was a concession to Exeter scholars from poor families...
Died. Lieut. General Roy Stanley Geiger, 61, grizzled, flinty-eyed pioneer Marine airman, hero of two wars ; of phlebitis and pulmonary complications; in Bethesda, Md. Naval Hospital. Forty years a leatherneck, Geiger rose from private to three-star rank, commanded all land-based aircraft which helped .turn the tide at Guadalcanal, led Marine conquests on Bougainville, Guam, Peleliu, Okinawa, became the first Marine ever to command an entire army (the U.S. 10th), on the death of General Simon B. Buckner Jr.; succeeded General Holland M. Smith as commander of the Fleet Marine Force...