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Word: star (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Quesada renewed his protest to the Chilean Foreign Ministry, then replied to the Aprista communique with a 16-point message of his own, declaring no less than six times that the Apristas were obviously Reds, since their party symbol (like that of Communism) is a five-pointed star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: War of the Roses | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

After searching high & low these many years, Illustrator George Petty at last found in Screen Star Joan Caulfield (height, 5 ft. 5 in.; weight, 119 lbs.; waist, 25 in.; bust, 35½ in.) the perfect model for his once-famed Petty Girl, promptly set to work sketching her. By an astounding coincidence, Joan was hard at work on a new movie-The Petty Girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Aug. 8, 1949 | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

Many Hollywood stars are stagestruck. To fill their yearning for the feel of an old-fashioned stage, some cinemactors take an occasional fling at Broadway. Others settle for Eastern summer stock or the hopeful little theaters that spring up in & around Los Angeles. In the past two years so many have trod the boards of a high-school auditorium in La Jolla, Calif., 100 miles south of Hollywood, that it has become the nation's most star-studded summer theater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Stagestruck | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

...theater in Beverly Hills. Former RKO Chief Peter Rathvon heads the company; its other officers are Peck, Ferrer, Rosalind Russell and Producer Jerry Wald. The project calls for the production of six plays a year for a run of at least six weeks each, with every member of a star-cluttered board of directors already agreed to appear every season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Stagestruck | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

...three members of this delightful family get into the movies, and each one on his own becomes a star. The rest of the film is composed of snitches and snatches from the family album of box-office hits-including some black & white satires of silent films in which Anne Baxter plays a frizzed girl of the '20s with a highly energetic twittering of legs and lashes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Aug. 8, 1949 | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

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