Word: starring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cinemactor Clifton Webb was one refugee from Broadway (Sunny, 1925, The Little Show, 1929) who was finding life in Hollywood exactly to his taste (see CINEMA). Being a star again, he confided to an interviewer, was "fun, a lot of fun, and I love it. There's no use pretending I'm a modest fellow . . . Some day I shall write a song called I Fascinate...
Last week, the University of Minnesota's Dr. Willem Jacob Luyten announced that he had discovered a double star which is only about six light years (35 trillion miles) away from the solar system. It is thus the nearest known star that can be seen regularly in the Northern Hemisphere. (The nearest of all stars, Alpha Centauri and Proxima Centauri, are 4.3 light years away, but are usually visible only.in the Southern Hemisphere...
Competition will even be stiff in the running events, the Crimson's forte. Big Jim Branson, Exeter sprinter, clocked the same times in the 100 and 200 yard dashes last week, as the Crimson's star. Dick Weiskopf...
Kirkland, last year's champion, has fallen. Not only have the Deacons lost two out of two, they have failed to enlist any more than two of last year's squad to help them out. Star outfielder Freg Wagon, for example, has strayed out of activity. This is ironic indeed in an organization which worships that rather vague deity, House Spirit...
...next." Even bulletins were made possible only by the Graphotype,*a machine perfected by the Trib (and copied by its rivals) since the start of the strike. Two weeks ago, when a disastrous midnight fire gutted a southern Illinois hospital, the Trib had a Graphotype bulletin in its One-Star Final in a scant 15 minutes...