Word: star
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Louis Disbrow, dirt-track racing star of the 1920s...
...week's end the Sox had won 43 of their last 60 games. The experts could think of nothing except fire or flood (or maybe a slump) that would keep them out of the World Series. The tipoff on Red Sox power and depth: when their batting star, Ted Williams, was benched recently with a bad back, the club won 13 out of 15 games. Said Joe McCarthy last week, with the air of a man saying all there was to say, '.'You got to lose some ball games during a season and we happened to lose...
Nine out of ten Americans who have read these and other shock-slogans of fund-raising campaigns have felt the desired shiver. The tenth, who did not, was Albert Deutsch. Mr. Deutsch, who writes a medical and social welfare column in the New York Star, finally felt annoyed. Wrote Deutsch last week: "When the whole grim truth is told, one out of every one of us dies. Period. I am disturbed by the sustained note of terror in the slogans constantly tossed at us by worthy health organizations in efforts to pry loose . . . enough dollars to fight effectively some particular...
Fred Astaire, who was talked out of a twelve-month retirement to pinch-tap for an injured star in Easter Parade last October, got a return break. When his co-star in The Barkleys of Broadway got sick, Ginger Rogers agreed to fill in, effecting a nostalgic screen reunion after ten years...
...Cain's dream girls are screenable without a change of makeup; so is Jack Dillon. A star halfback and a trained engineer, he has "taffy" blond hair, dimples in his shoulders, and he displays that blend of brass and mechanical ingenuity that is required of a Cain hero, like an Eagle Scout who never heard of the gentler things a Scout is supposed to be. The best things in the book are like the best things in all Cain's books: clear, fast-moving narrative passages in which Jack Dillon tells you step by step how he bluffed...