Word: starrs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the day he enrolled last summer at Memphis State College, 23-year-old John Robert Starr appeared to be a model student. A shaggy-haired ex-G.I. with a wife and two children, Starr managed to get As and Bs in all his courses. He was also sports editor of the college annual, wrote a column for the college paper, covered high-school sports for the Memphis Commercial Appeal, and on Sundays held down a job as a reporter for the United Press. The dean's office thought his load was a heavy...
Then, last fortnight, the office began to hear some strange rumors about Student Starr-so strange, in fact, that at first the dean could not believe them. But just as a precaution, he called Starr in and asked him pointblank if the rumors were true. Yes, Starr admitted, they were: ever since he had been at State, he had also been a full-time student at Southwestern College, four miles away...
...well into his senior year, and his record was every bit as good as it was at State. He was making As and Bs, was sports editor of the annual, wrote a column for the paper, covered campus news for the Appeal. The only trouble with Southwestern, said Starr, was that it didn't keep him busy enough: "There were so many subjects I wanted to learn about. And being lazy by nature, I thought it would be good self-discipline to sign up for them." When Southwestern could not give him all the courses he wanted...
...Hurricane. The faculty was stunned to find that the list included not only young, newly appointed instructors, but also such top, long-established men as English Professor Nathan C. Starr and Biologist Paul A. Vestal. The fact that the firings had been made by trustee formula did not soothe faculty feelings. Why, the faculty wanted to know, were the top professors not consulted? Why did the cuts have to be so drastic? Why had Wagner stuck by the formula when he knew that he was eliminating some of his ablest and most popular...
...Long Days (by Davis Snow; produced by Tait-Buell) is one more of those gnarled, harsh dramas laid in a New England farmhouse. It concerns nine characters named Adams, who are not uncharacteristically lined up eight against one. The one is the matriarch of the family (Frances Starr), a fiercely dominating woman who puts the farm above its inhabitants, her ancestors ahead of her descendants. A hurried and lurid ending shows that she was not only intensely possessive but .pathologically possessed. Playwright Snow writes with great seriousness, but little power or skill. The Long Days has all the greyness...