Word: starrs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Magazine, monthly, is for people who do not keep up to date in their tabloid reading. Its stories are recapitulations of the sensations of recent months, profusely illustrated and captioned in scare-head fashion. Several of the stories in the first issue are about six months old (e. g., Starr Faithfull, Two-Gun Crowley, Bryan Untiedt) but an effort will be made to make the magazine a news-of-the-month resume. Publisher is Herman Rawitser (Flying Aces, Detective Dragnet, Football Classic, et al.); editor is one Percy L. Trussell...
...effort to show how innocent by-standers can be drawn into criminal proceedings, the director achieved a picture of family life which was undeniably real. Frances Starr and Grant Mitchell portray the parents with a naturalness which is extremely gratifying. The acting of Miss Starr where she is frantic for the welfare of her family deserves nothing but praise, and whereas Charles (Chic) Sales, who specialized as the grandfather, was guilty of exaggeration, Walter Huston played the prosecutor with more feeling than is usual in the case of screenland officials. "The Star Witness", in spite of occasional lapses, is sincere...
...annually played by the pennant winners of the International League and American Association, is bigger than the Big World Series. It is decided by five games out of nine instead of four games out, of seven. In the eighth game of the Little World Series last week, Pitcher Ray Starr of the Rochester (N. Y.) Red Wings struck out nine of the St. Paul Saints, gave only seven hits, won the deciding game for Rochester, now champion for two years...
Died. Dr. David Starr Jordan, 80, Chancellor Emeritus of Stanford University; of apoplexy after a long illness of arteriosclerosis and diabetes; in Palo Alto, Calif. Rugged, tall, white-maned, shaggy-mustached, he was Stanford's "Grand Old Man." He had made his influence felt throughout the world: as pacifist, ichthyologist and educator (TIME, June 28). He was chief director of the World Peace Foundation (1910-1914), president of the World's Peace Congress in 1915, vice president of the American Peace Society. He feared and worked to avert the World War, but said later: "Our country...
Enclosed clipping supplements your appreciation of Dr. David Starr Jordan in TIME of June...