Word: star
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...begun noticing odd things about halfway through the game. The way he couldn't relax with everyone else after the star halfback limped off the other side of the field, and the way he wondered whether the back would go to class Monday, and most of all whether he'd have to be banged up again before he got his letter. On the way back from the game he watched lots of things he never saw before: the foolishness of an empty stadium, the sad looks on the peddlers who got stuck with left-over pennants, the way the House...
Cave-Dwellers' Paper. The Star caters to the "cave-dwellers"-the permanent residents, scorning what McKelway calls the "short timers." The cave-dwellers get their names in the paper regularly, at social gatherings and community club meetings. They can't do without the oldfashioned, fussily-detailed front-page cartoons, drawn in familiar, familial style by 77-year-old Clifford K. Berryman and his son Jim. And the best-read feature is Charles E. Thracewell's This & That column, which is about birds and bugs...
...Star," says McKelway, "is an old lady, and it would be unseemly for her to turn a somersault on the Mall. I don't think we're stodgy. Mr. Noyes used to say, 'Let them say we are stodgy and dull. At least, they know that our editorial columns cannot be bought...
Sent by the all-star tunes of your choice...
Murphy clients are a dozen-odd industrial VIPs (Westinghouse Electric, Pacific Mills, Columbia Broadcasting) and some 250 individual VIPs who pay a flat fee for the general service. When the clients' star customers, big dealers and other sacred cows turn up in New York, Murphy gives them "the treatment." Usual ingredients: choice hotel rooms, choice train and plane reservations, choice sport and theater tickets, choice Scotch. Says Murphy: "Most people who come to New York on a business trip don't know what the score is. They want a lot of things, but, especially in times like these...