Word: star
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fall, the Dartmouth team is rated by observers as a far hotter than average eleven. In their only game they dropped a close contest to the Yale Freshmen by the score of 13 to 6, the Indian score coming on an 80-yard kick-off runback by their backfield star, Jerry Sarno, voted the outstanding back in Massachusetts last year...
...vaudeville phrase, "hard to follow," meaning that it is difficult to please the audience when your act follows the star attraction, can be applied to Hollywood's expansion of the story. Hemingway is very "hard to follow." That Producer Mark Hellinger and Siodmak manage to do as well as they have is sufficient tribute to their skill. Employing no big name actors, they spin out a tautly wound picture which is very tough without the meaningless piling up of horror on horror that has plagued such productions as "The Big Sleep." Starting with the fact of the Swede's murder...
...Washington, Adam is made the darling of the N.R.P. (National Re-fertilization Project), while the N.R.C. (the scientists) demands that Adam be submitted to further tests to find out why the loss of Mississippi turned out so badly. While Colonel Phelps-Smythe, who is bucking for a star, takes over security arrangements, the bureaucrats take up the bit and proceed to run organizationally amuck, turning the hope of humanity into the greatest show since N.R.A. went out. Adam is torn between policy meetings screen tests (Hollywood foresees a race of gawky, Adam-like red-heads) and experimental sessions with...
Restless, acquisitive Eugene C. Pulliam, a onetime police reporter on the Kansas City Star, has always hankered to be a big publisher. Since 1917 he has bought 43 midwest papers, sold 35 of them. Mostly the deals were just for practice, but he was playing for keeps when he bought control of the Indianapolis Star (for $2,500,000) in 1944. Last week Publisher Pulliam, a crew-cropped six-footer, pulled his biggest deal of all. In bustling Phoenix (Ariz.) he bought the Republic (circ. 56,810) and Gazette (33,494), a money-making mo- nopoly. Price: $4.000,000 cash...
First, take a top, sure-fire star (Van Johnson). Add a pretty girl who can sing (Pat Kirkwood). Throw in a skilled comic (Keenan Wynn) and a couple of "name" orchestras (Guy Lombardo and Xavier Cugat). Never mind the plot. Van Johnson, looking winsome for the better part of two hours, is all the romance his bobby-sox worshipers really want. Wynn can handle the laughs...