Word: starring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While Alvin H. Hansen, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy, will not give any undergraduate courses next year, the Department still presents an all-star cast. The galaxy of Professors Black, Haberler, Harris, Leontief, Schumpeter, Williams, and Associate Professor Dunlop is one that probably can't be beaten anywhere. Moreover there are many good men in the Department's lower echelons...
...Citizen Kane" was Orson Welles' baby. He was the first person ever commissioned by a studio to write, direct, produce and star in a single film, and the result of his multiple activity became a movie classic...
...Union ordered the strikers back. This week the pressmen struck again, after Federal Mediator Cyrus Ching had tried all night to settle the dispute over wages and hours. A.F.L. stereotypers walked out too. The second strike, blessed by the International's officers, hit the afternoon papers first-the Star and the Daily News-and shut them down. Pickets also appeared at the morning Post and the Times-Herald. Neither publishers nor unionists could say how long the strike would last this time...
South Pacific by Mr. Hammerstein & Joshua Logan; produced by the Messrs. Rodgers & Hammerstein in association with Leland Hayward & Mr. Logan) opened to an advance sale of $500,000 and the kind of notices ("utterly captivating"-"truly great") that should keep it on Broadway for years. As an all-star production, it almost merits such notices. As a show, it does...
...plus, Winston got 74 brooches, necklaces, bracelets, and two world-famed diamonds, the robin's-egg-sized Hope diamond* (44½ carats) and the Star of the East (100 carats). Though Winston laughed at the legend that the Hope diamond had brought only trouble or tragedy to its owners and wearers, he soon had his pressagents grinding out new embellishments of the tale (samples: "Marie Antoinette, who wore it, was beheaded . . . Solomon Habib, Oriental diamond merchant who handled the gem, has been ill for 40 years"). Winston planned to send the collection on a nationwide tour of museums...