Word: star
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Capitol for the social event of the day-a buffet luncheon with the Senate-he seemed as delighted as a football star back for a college reunion...
...junior Arrow Collar Man. Frankie's family was far from well-to-do, but Frankie danced and wisecracked his way into Franklin High School's social upper crust. He was manager of the basketball team, manager of the senior play, and a passionate, if reedy-voiced, star of the debating team. Just about everybody who knew him in Seattle back in 1923 predicted that Frankie Waldron would...
Last week, a quarter of a century later, Frankie's star had come to rest in the Federal Courthouse in Manhattan's downtown Foley Square. He was on trial for conspiring to teach and advocate the overthrow of the U.S. Government. On the indictment, Frankie was listed under the pseudonym by which he was more widely known: Eugene Dennis. He was general secretary of the Communist Party, U.S.A...
...summer of 1948 the Government moved in on him and his party. That was how Frankie Waldron's star came to rest in the courthouse in Foley Square...
...during which some 4,000 swarming youngsters almost swallowed him up before police reinforcements arrived, Denver's Mayor Quigg Newton used his weekly radio chat to apologize for City Hall's unpreparedness. Explained the mayor: "[The police] had no advance knowledge of the effect this particular movie star produces on children...