Word: star
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Barbara excitedly showed the Star clipping to visitors, pasted it into her scrap-book-and began to eat again. With a new lease on life she began to enjoy the shipments of frozen and fresh watermelons supplied by the Star's readers. At week's end, Barbara was still too sick to live-and still happily alive...
Once before, the Star had done something like that. In 1938, when General John J. Pershing was critically ill in Tucson, the Star had minimized his illness in a special edition of one copy printed for him every day. Last week the Star printed a one-copy edition for Barbara. Said the special story: "Barbara is getting along just fine. She's going to be all right before long." In the Star's regular edition, the rest of Tucson was let in on the secret...
...with an air rifle for a rat hunt in a friend's apartment. While editor of TIME he still played baseball in Central Park, or got up at 6 a.m. to play catch with his apartment janitor. But he had sublimated his ambition to be a baseball star into a desire to make $1,000,000 before he was 30. He also hoped one day to own the New York Yankees, or at least to throw out the first ball at an opening game. (He made...
...this razzle-dazzle fashion, American Safety Razor Corp.'s showman President Milton Dammann introduced a smooth-shaving new razor blade called Silver Star, made of a new metal called "Duridium" (a hard-alloy steel). With it, Dammann was out to crowd Gillette's famed Blue Blade out of the No. 1 spot in the blade market. Dammann planned to spend $2,000,000 on the promotion campaign because his company needed that kind of boost. In this year's first quarter its profits had dropped from...
Balloon & Star. Project Saucer sifted more than 240 reports in the" U.S. and 30 in foreign parts. About 30% of the "unidentified aerial phenomena," it decided, were due to astronomical objects, such as meteors, bright stars or planets. Other flying discs turned out to be weather balloons, some of them carrying lights, or the big plastic balloons that scientists send up to study cosmic rays. Some of the mysterious lights were probably reflections on an airplane's windshield...