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Word: starring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Treasure is the sort of picture most intelligent filmgoers have been hungry for, a hunger which has been sated only by the foreign markets of late. . . . I have never been a Bogart fan, but it is tremendously gratifying to realize that Hollywood's evil star system can sometimes be defeated and that an erstwhile painfully stylized tough-guy hero can play an unsympathetic weakling and make him an absorbing character study...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 23, 1948 | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

...went west as editor of the Seattle Star, switched to the Tacoma Times just before the Star winked out in a forced sale last year (TIME, Aug. 25). The Scripps brothers, down to the last four links of a western chain that once had eleven papers, invited him (at around $12,000 a year) to beef up the Times. Newsmen wondered if the Scripps brothers could digest Townes's robust journalism. If they could, the guess is that Townes will get the bigger job of running the chain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Mr. Townes Goes to Town | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

...regents appointed amiable University Comptroller Tom L. Pope joy. Most New Mexicans, they figured, would find Tom Popejoy more to their liking: he was a member of Rotary and one of the directors of the Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce. Old grads also remembered the day when, as a star halfback on the university football team, he kicked the winning goal against the University of Arizona...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Out Like a Janitor | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

Middlebury, Dartmouth, McGill, and New Hampshire, if records, weather terrain, reputation, and big amateur names mean anything, will top the star studded field of the Invitation meet. The Crimson schussmen will probably have to let the big boys from the Magic North battle it out for the laurels...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Ski Hopes Blow Hot And Cold for Carnival Meet | 2/12/1948 | See Source »

Mikkola's attitude was that tiring the Crimson's little feet on the big, star-studded field with no end in view would be a silly waste of much sleep...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Felton Breaks New England A.A.U. Weight-Throw Mark | 2/12/1948 | See Source »

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