Word: star
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unlike some college teams, the pros could not win with one star and ten little helpers. In pro football, this had been a year of strong defense, mediocre offense, and of team play. Before 63,000 chilly fans at the Polo Grounds this week, the New York Giants, a squad that has no real standouts, earned a 31-to-0 victory and the league's Eastern division championship. Their victims, the Washington Redskins, had a good line all season, but it didn't stand up very well against the Giants...
Married. Norma Talmadge, 49, oldtime star of silent films and Dr. Carvel James, 39, Los Angeles physician; she for the third time (No. i: Producer Joseph Schenck; No. 2: Comedian George Jessel), he for the second; in Las Vegas...
Died. Alfred Kornfeld, 26, TIME correspondent in Germany and at the Nurnberg trials, former U.S. Army master sergeant, who was thrice wounded, won the Silver Star in action; after a jeep accident while on his way from Berlin to Niirnberg...
...father into a loveless marriage. When her husband, child and father are killed off in a yellow fever epidemic. Ginger and her mother open a genteel boardinghouse. The scene is Philadelphia, where the 3rd U.S. Congress is in session. Who should turn up as the young widow's star boarders but Senator Aaron Burr (David Niven) and Congressman James Madison (Burgess Meredith)? Of course, both celebrated statesmen fall promptly and hard for their pretty landlady...
...Catholic weekly, Commonweal, has rated him "perhaps the greatest Protestant-Christian of the 19th Century, a man equal in spiritual stature to . . . Cardinal Newman." But to many a college-educated American the strangely beautiful name of Sören Kierkegaard might as well be that of a new movie star or a kind of smorgasbord. Chief reasons: 1) only in the last decade have most of his works been translated from Danish into English†; 2) his ironical, passionate, introverted philosophy of religion is off beam for positivist, social-minded Americans; 3) his thought is tough going...