Word: star
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...career had lasted more than half a century. He had been a vaudeville juggler and a big name in musicomedy for decades before the sound track was invented. But millions would remember only one W. C. Fields-the gentle grifter who convulsed them in the '30s as a star of motion pictures and the radio...
...Star Facts of Life. Astronomers, meeting at Radcliffe College, in Cambridge, discussed even vaster forces (not yet under human control). They told how stars are formed, over billions of years, out of cosmic...
...this thin stuff continues to concentrate, the particles get hotter & hotter. When they get hot enough (after some billion years), a new star shines...
...recent months, Roy Howard's New York World-Telegram, key link in the chain, had frequently killed the Stokes column. The days when he was dropped, he noted, were usually days when he and the paper's editorial policy (hard-a-star-board Republican) disagreed...
Married. Gardner ("Mike") Cowles Jr., 43, publisher of the Des Moines Register & Tribune, chairman of the board of the Minneapolis Star-Journal & Tribune Co., president of Look; and Fleur Fenton, 33, Manhattan advertising consultant; both for the second time; in Stamford, Conn...