Word: star
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...insider's knowledge of only one sport: horse racing (his father was a horse owner and trainer who made the circuit from Cuba to Montreal for 15 years). Smith, who is 34, came to TIME five years ago via his native Baltimore's Evening Sun, the Providence Star-Tribune and Journal, where he wrote sports and features for seven years, and the NBC news room. Writing for TIME'S Sport department, however, involved a considerable departure from newspaper technique...
Despite Council denials, Fisher reaffirmed his accusations that his trial was a "star chamber session" which impeached him because of "political reasons" and as proof cited the political makeup of the Council: "seven confirmed Democrats, three confirmed Republicans, one leftist, two, in my opinion sincere independents, and three whose politics I have no way of judging...
...Huskies have a strong first line and a good defense. Their outstanding star is first line center Jimmy Bell, who always seems to score two or more goals whether the opposition be Boston College or M.I.T. All New England forward Bell is flanked by Jim Reld and Dave MacKensie, a pair of better than average wings...
...Star-Times was already practicing what Isaacs was preaching. His instructions to his staff: "When they say, 'This is off the record,' you just say you're sorry . . . and walk out. You can always find out what [they're] trying to freeze up on. It's your job to crack that story...
...Michigan's Republican Senator Homer Ferguson, cried that this was another "step toward socialism." It was hardly that-yet. But it was a shrewd political move designed to scare steelmen into making more steel. It also put out the welcome mat for such companies as Dallas' Lone Star Steel Co. Lone Star got its start with a $25 million war-surplus blast furnace which it bought in 1947 for $7,500,000 (TIME, April 7, 1947). Last week Lone Star's President Eugene B. Germany called on Truman to discuss an RFC loan...