Word: star
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gaylord was also the star of Photographer Sharland's encounter with Tallulah at her Manhattan apartment (where photographs were made for Boris Chaliapin's guidance while painting the cover portrait of Tallulah). "You don't mind the bird, do you?" Tallulah inquired, and Sharland, smiling wanly, said, "Of course not." Gaylord took an immediate fancy to Sharland and spent most of the 45-minute session perched on top of her head. Things were complicated further by the presence of Tallulah's Pekingese and a Hungarian sheep dog, who tore around the room, got tangled in Sharland...
...early afternoon edition headed McCULLAGH BUYS TELY (changed in a later edition to TELY REMAINS INDEPENDENT). Although McCullagh said that there would be no immediate wholesale firings, his ownership of both the Globe & Mail and the Telegram would cut the field for any ex-staffers to one paper, the Star...
Able Newspaperman McCullagh decided to get tough first with Toronto's Liberal Star (circ. 369,276), longtime rival of the Telegram, and Canada's biggest newspaper. The Star charged that the Telegram had lost its independence and that McCullagh was a front man "for outside influence and ownership." McCullagh snapped that the Telegram deal was his own. "That fellow Hindmarsh [Harry Comfort Hindmarsh, Star president]," he roared, ". . . is so ugly that if he ever bit himself he'd get hydrophobia...
...almost sure starter is Dave Smith, a freshman star last year and, according to Jordan, an "outstanding sophomore" this year. Alfred Abboud is currently in the same division, although he may check in at 135 later on. In this class Jordan has pint-sized Roger Wach and Harry King, one of the five returning lettermen. King, on the other hand, is likely to compete in the 145-pound group, where he would be joined by Ray, unless Ray wrestles...
...chapter on Harvard coaches, from Lucius Littauer in 1881 to Arthur Valpey in '48, is contributed by Harry Von Kersburg, star Crimson guard of 1905-06, line coach under Percy Houghton, and for thirty years a football official. Von Kersburg also includes commentary on many Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, and Brown teams...