Word: starring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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West Point's Coach Earl ("Red") Blaik as yet has no reasonable facsimile of famed Glenn ("Mr. Outside") Davis, though he has a promising star in 22-year-old Bobby Stuart. Says Blaik: "Davis had a long stride and five or six different speeds. Stuart has a short stride and only two or three speeds." But Army, unbeaten in three years, began its fourth season by beating beefy Villanova...
Ever since the Pharaohs, men have been getting cleverer & cleverer at making imitation gems. Almost every precious stone now has a man-made twin. Last week the Linde Air Products Co. (a unit of Union Carbide & Carbon Corp.) announced that it had finally produced "star" sapphires and rubies...
...Star sapphires, which have a brilliant, six-pointed star, are more difficult to imitate. Their "asterism" comes from minute particles of some foreign matter (some authorities claim that it is empty space) arranged symmetrically throughout the crystal structure. These form a slight cloudiness (jewelers call it "silk") which reflects light in the shape of a star...
...great gem hall of New York's American Museum of Natural History last week, Linde chemists displayed synthetic star stones that were red, blue, violet, soft grey and pink. No two were exactly alike, but through the high, rounded surface of each twinkled a six-pointed star. The biggest stone, a star ruby, was as big as a walnut shell and weighed more than 100 carats (.643 troy oz.). Beside the synthetics, many of the natural stones from the museum's collection looked pallid...
...Linde Co. is not telling exactly how it makes its star stones, but admits to using a modification of the standard blowpipe system. The synthetics will sell for a comparatively low price (in the hundreds), but Linde does not think that the price of natural stones (up in the thousands) will fall very much. There will still be buyers who value rarity above beauty. Nonetheless, the woman who wears a synthetic star sapphire will be perfectly safe from detection so long as she keeps away from lapidaries with microscopes...