Word: star
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Screen Star James Cagney, 44, bought an $85,000 waterfront place in Edgartown, Mass., but denied that it was to get his children as far away as possible from "the Hollywood atmosphere...
...experiment than in the televised World Series game. A.P.'s Arthur Edson noted that, technically, reception "was surprisingly good," but complained that he had missed most of an inning because FCCommissioner Frieda Hennock was posing for news pictures in front of the screen. The New York Star's Ernest Barcella was chiefly concerned about what had happened to Warren Spahn: "He was pitching for the Braves when we entered a tunnel. When we picked up the game again Spahn was missing for good. It developed he had been batted from...
Each night, for 16 nights starting last Wednesday, a chart is locked in a laboratory at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, containing extra-sensory symbols arranged in five rows of five each. The symbols are a star, square, circle, cross and wavy line; and five of each, placed in a random fashion, are used in every chart...
...combination of Arnold Galiffa, Bobby Jack Stuart, Win Scott, and Rudy Cosentino has achieved a reputation approaching that of the great wartime backfield, and they are only one-half of Blaik's offensive potential. Jackie Cain, star of the alternate unit, is tied for Army's scoring lead, and mates Gil Stevenson, Jack Gillette, and Bill Depew all have statistical records that make then look like distance runners...
This semi-farcical rehash of Madame X, etc. might have been an entertaining movie, but it is done without gaiety, irony, style or even simple fun. MGM, long the world's No. 1 star-polisher, has mishandled the stars in the show. Elizabeth Taylor, who is just beginning to move into grownup roles, is one of the loveliest girls in movies; but here she is made-up and hair-done and directed into tired, tiresome conventional prettiness. Miss Garson has beauty, vitality and professional know-how. These are all visible, yet the performance is almost never joyous or even...