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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Albert D. ("Dolly") Stark was born on Manhattan's lower East Side, son of a second-hand clothes dealer who never had enough spare stock to supply his son with a coat to match his trousers. Small Stark envied the boy who lived across the street, whose name was Walter Winchell, and who owned a Buster Brown suit of blue serge. When he grew up Dolly Stark became a professional baseball player. He gave it up in 1921, went to Dartmouth as basketball coach three years later, kept up his interest in baseball by umpiring summers...
...profession at 62 and long past the length of service at which National League umpires are eligible for a $2,000 yearly pension, does nothing in the winter. He thinks he has never made a wrong decision in 33 years on the field. Among his colleagues, Dolly Stark has been distinguished for a variety of reasons. While continuing to coach basketball at Dartmouth, where a majority of under graduates prefer outdoor winter sports, he has worked himself up as an umpire until last season his salary was $9,000, almost as big as Klem's. Voting by players...
...Stark defeat or startling upset face the Varsity swimming team when it meets Providence Boys Club in the pool here tomorrow afternoon...
...Stark Young's "So Red The Rose" contains the germ of a truly dramatic idea, and the sensitive adaptation by Sherwood Anderson and Lawrence Stallings makes the most of it. The scene is laid in Missouri during the Civil War, where we find Randolph Scott in the role of the forerunner to the modern conscientious objector. He "likes to see things grow," and hates destruction. His mature and civilized ideology run counter to the inflamed and destructive passions of the times. Consequently he is socially ostracized, is called a coward by his beloved cousin (Margaret Sullavan), and is torn...
...Stark Reality. It was presently evident that, as often happens in the case of honest Stanley Baldwin, he did not mean his words in the sense conveyed by their sound to non-Britons. They implied that the Government, since it stands where it has always stood, had not upon that firm basis turned around. It had thus turned and the turning was the whole point of the Prime Minister's speech, but he had expressed himself like Humpty Dumpty.* A few minutes later, some 500 words further along, he told the House not to put too much trust...