Word: starting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back to the Hills. It did not take Sancton long to get fed up with "the rush, the noise and the grime" of city life. After a wartime hitch in the Royal Canadian Air Force, Sancton went back to the Gazette's staff in 1945 long enough to start a campaign to "bring over the war brides quicker." Soon after his own English war bride, Mary, joined him, Sancton heard that Octogenarian John C. Holland, owner and editor of the Stanstead Journal, was ailing and willing to sell his paper. Sancton quit his job and bought...
...small, interdenominational Protestant Voice (circ. 29,500), and turn it into a weekly newspaper. The new paper will have a 30-man board of directors, selected from 300 representatives of denominations, religious agencies and geographical areas. It will cost an estimated $2,000,000, though publication will start after $650,000 is in the kitty. Main offices will probably be in New York City, where its backers hope by next January to bring out a "national paper that looks like a newspaper and reads like one" and is "as universal in its interests as Christ's church...
...Lady Gambles (Paramount) gets off to a shocking start with a handsomely photographed sequence showing Barbara Stanwyck taking a brutal beating in a murky underground passage. Barbara's crap-shooting friends have just caught her with a pair of loaded dice...
Andover was the only one of these three that lost. In these tough games the squad battled but failed on the finer points of play-making and team work, while in the contests where it had a clear victory from the start, it has tended to stoop to playing the opponent's type of game...
Coach Dick Meryman will start: at attack, Ned Yost, Bob Baldwin, and Lou Schaffer; at midfield, Rip Lynch, Al Sawyer, and Pete Brooke; at defense, Captain Bill Spence, Jay Byrne, and Godfrey Birckhead; and at goalie, Dick Thomas...