Word: starring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dalton strolled into the House. Carvel went to a telephone and dictated 55 fateful words to his paper. By the time Dalton had been booming for 13 minutes (but before he had mentioned any specific tax changes), the Star's "stop-press" column told of Britain's new taxes...
Admission. Next morning the tempest he had so casually stirred up broke on Dalton. Tory M.P. Victor Raikes told Dalton that he would ask a question in the House about the tip to the Star. After a routine Cabinet meeting, Dalton took Attlee aside and admitted his indiscretion. He offered his resignation. That afternoon a much subdued Dalton arose in the House of Commons to answer Raikes's question. "I appreciate that this was a grave indiscretion on my part," he intoned, "for which I offer my deep apologies to the House...
...President's Certificate of Merit for his patriotic wartime movies-presumably including The North Star, which got such a lambasting at the congressional investigation of Little Red Hollywood...
...Line. Local pressagents and sports editors find it easier to put across a lineman than a backfield star: there is no easy way to measure a tackle's talents or accomplishments statistically. And who can say whether Pennsylvania's 220-lb. Charles Bednarik is a better center than Kentucky's Jay Rhodemyre? The most celebrated tackles were Notre Dame's George Connor and Ziggy Czarobski, Georgia Tech's Bob Davis. Davis' team was upset last week by Alabama, 14 to 7, but he was still a hero in Atlanta...
Then, after accepting the baseball writers' Comiskey Trophy for the Rookie of the Year, Jackie climbed into the new Cadillac that Dodger fans had given him at Ebbets Field, and headed for Hollywood. He will star in a movie tentatively called Brooklyn, U.S.A. and help Negro Sportwriter Wendell Smith finish Robinson's "autobiography...