Word: starrs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Dr. Martin Bernfield died in San Antonio two years ago, his office nurse, Rachel Starr, found herself with $44,000, the savings of 27 years, and nothing to do. But she had an idea. Bernfield had made a professional hobby of treating San Antonio's Negroes, and Mrs. Starr remembered his recurring anger whenever he couldn't get a patient into one of the two-dozen hospital beds available for the city's 25,000 Negroes. Why not, she thought, build and run a hospital for Negroes? As she put "it to herself...
Last week, Good Samaritan Hospital was formally opened; already, twelve of its 70 beds were in use. In the basement were quarters for Mrs. Starr, laboratories, X-ray and fluoroscope rooms; on the first and second floors, six wards and four private rooms (maximum rate, $7 a day); two operating rooms...
...hospital had raised some opposition. Ninety members of Corinth Baptist got out; they objected to the diversion of their $39,000 building fund (the congregation now worships in a private house), objected to the pastor's leasing the old building to Mrs. Starr for 20 years at a sum so low he refuses to name...
Hollywood's Bette Davis and Charles Laughton squared off over Sir Laurence Olivier's Hamlet (TIME, June 28). Bette agreed with Hearstling Jimmy Starr who said he "didn't like" the movie and that "I'm bored with Shakespeare." Pronounced Laughton: "It saddens me that Hollywood should be made to look even sillier than ever by one of its prominent artists . . . That I have not seen Sir Laurence Olivier's Hamlet is irrelevant...
...Swing Fiddler Joe Venuti's band, wandering across the U.S. on deadly one-night stands. Then Jazzman Charlie Barnet put her up against his nine brasses. "I pay for 'em," Charlie used to roar, "and I want to hear 'em." After two years of shouting, Kay Starr's voice broke down...