Word: starrs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jean Overton Fuller (240 pp.; Little, Brown; $3.50), is the gripping, troubling story of a British secret agent who played a double game with his Nazi captors. Caught the second time he parachuted into France, Captain John Starr pretended to compromise with the enemy. He accepted the Germans' invitation to stay at their counter-espionage headquarters in Paris, lettering maps (he was a commercial artist), and chatted daily with the Germans (harmlessly, he says). He soon learned that the Germans had succeeded in capturing Allied agents' radio sets and cutting them into the British network...
...MARK STARR New York City
...Upstairs (Kay Starr; Capitol). Typical advice on where to go for help in the clutch-to God himself. Climbing the bestseller steps...
Swamp-Fire (Kay Starr; Capitol). A tough, jivey version of a sultry oldtimer. It is sung in characteristic style by Songstress Starr, who was one of the first to popularize the slithering, wrong-note technique of today's pop singers...
Automatic safety devices and a host of unpredictable technical problems will raise the price of the electricity produced. But the solution to these problems may also mean an answer to man's dwindling reserves of coal and fuel oil. In an ideal nuclear power plant, says Dr. Chauncey Starr, North American's director of atomic research, 10 lbs. of fissionable material a day could produce electric power equal to the ultimate capacity of Hoover...