Word: star
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington, only whites were let in to the opening of Maxwell Anderson's new play, Joan of Lorraine. Pickets protested. Star Ingrid Bergman went on with the show, but race discrimination, said she, made the capital a poor place for an opening. Playwright Robert E. Sherwood proposed that the show world teach Washington a lesson. "I believe," said he, "that it is the duty of all of us who work in the American theater ... to protest ... by agreeing that we shall keep our productions out of Washington until the ban against Negroes is abolished...
...when Abraham Lincoln had spoken the last words of his first inaugural address, he leaned over and handed his copy down to a young newsman named Crosby Noyes, told him to get it set in type. Washingtonians have been depending on the Noyes-edited Washington Evening Star ever since. Rich, reserved and respectable, the newspaper has become as solid a Washington institution...
Last week, for the third time in fourscore years, the Star got a new editor. For the first time, he was not a Noyes-but sober, cautious Benjamin Mosby McKelway, 51, was unmistakably one of Noyes's boys...
Onward & Upward. Ben McKelway, brother of blond, bland St. Clair McKelway of the New Yorker and Hollywood, has risen steadily in the Star's white-tiled, Gothic pile at 11th and Pennsylvania Avenue ever since patriarchal Theodore W. Noyes, its second editor, hired him as a reporter in 1921. Next month he will move into Noyes's triangular, Victorian top-floor office...
Compared to Scripps-Howard's tabloid Daily News, to "Cissie" Patterson's raucous Times-Herald and even to Eugene Meyer's Post, the Evening Star seems to many readers as stodgy as the Congressional Record. It is second only to the Times-Herald in circulation (with a record 215,000) and among the five most adladen papers in the nation...