Word: stars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...supporting cast had changed. The spot was rain-swept Franklin Field, Philadelphia, and a Harvard team, fresh from a defeat at the hands of Dartmouth and in the midst of one of its worst seasons on record, was expected to be easy prey for the Quaker eleven. And the star, just as today, was Boulris...
...Star-Crossed. In Philadelphia, fired from his city job for a long string of absences and tardiness, J. Howard Johnson appealed to the local Civil Service Commission for his early reinstatement as law-enforcement clerk, explained that he was born under the astrological sign of Sagittarius, which makes him too restless to stay put in one spot for more than a few hours at a time...
After an all-star conference on the U.S. space lag (see Space), President Eisenhower cleared his desk, canceled his scheduled press conference, and hopped down to Augusta for a five-day cold cure in the Georgia sun. But Augusta last week was cold, rainy and damp by turns, and though Ike got in a couple of rounds of soggy golf, the trip was not much of a vacation. Even before he could swing a club he got the news that his summit plans were coming unstuck and he called a press conference at Augusta's Richmond Hotel for next...
Last week's star-studded production was often brilliant, but not everywhere right. There were superb performances by Pamela Brown as Shotover's snooty upper-class daughter, by Diana Wynyard as his masterfully radiant one, by Alan Webb, despite the hurdle of being the good man of the play. But there was merely competent performing too. And the last scene lacked any touch of magic, partly because it wore too lively an air, partly because Ben Edwards' all-purpose set placed it in a well-lighted sort of courtyard instead of a dusky, dreamlike garden...
...bright flashing object which startled several College star-gazers as it sped across the sky early last night was a huge inflatable satellite launched over the Atlantic to a height of 250 miles...