Word: star
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only American League shortstop who has ever led his league twice in batting, and his 1936 average, .388, is the best figure for any big-time shortstop in modern baseball history. Appling makes more errors than a star infielder should, but he has led American League shortstops seven times in number of assists, and he is a wizard with bad-hopping grounders. He has made a crack double-play man out of the Sox's young second baseman, Cass Michaels, with whom Appling rooms on the road...
...worry herself too much about what the well-dressed woman should wear, expresses her urge for personal ornamentation by wearing spangle-studded glasses and chunks of costume jewelry. She got her elementary lessons in journalism as an 18-year-old reporter on her mother's Rockford (Ill.) morning Star, covering everything from farm news to a "dance-athon," and writing two columns. In 1941, Bazy married Maxwell Peter Miller Jr., now 30, a socialite defense-plant worker, University of Chicago graduate and ex-ranch hand...
...that slugged out the homer, circulation-wise. Even at the new price of 20?, up a nickel, it sold out a record press run of 150,000 copies in three days. Then it ran off another 10,000 copies, and contracted with a publisher to bring out the star-studded issue as a book...
...Villager, a prosperous (circ. 26,000), country-style weekly published in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, appeared a sentimental eulogy last week of its star columnist. "I shall always think of him," wrote Reader Katherine Caldwell, "as one of the great ... He had the lofty detachment of a genius and the warm friendliness of a child. When he stared me down with a frigid hauteur, as he sometimes did, I could have been swept up in a teaspoon. But when he moved in on me grandly and condescended to occupy my lap, I felt as though I'd made...
...week, NBC (which had lost almost all of its comedy line-up to raiding CBS) launched a female counterattack with The Ethel Merman Show (Sun. 9:30 p.m., E.D.T.). The program's tenuous story line has dark, bouncy, 41-year-old Ethel Merman, ably assisted by ex-Juvenile Star Leon Janney, trying to sell a new revue to a somnolent backer-Homer Tubbs, the Syracuse floor-mop king...