Word: stellar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gunther's best friends, who tend to be conspicuously witty or pretty, run a stellar range from Addams, Charles, to Zorina, Vera. To Book-of-the-Month Club Judge John Mason Brown, "John's foible isn't name-dropping, it's name-wonder. He's never got over the mica that's in names. He has a child's sense of giving a party, a fairyland belief in celebrities." One fairyland fable who slips frequently in and out of the house on East 62nd Street is Greta Garbo, the "G.G." to whom John...
...Singers Roberta Peters and Blanche The-bom and Conductor Leopold Stokowski, the Philadelphia Orchestra for Soviet Pianist Emil Gilels and Violinist Leonid Kogan (who are in the U.S. now), plus the Bolshoi Theater Ballet and other stellar attractions...
Citation: "A stellar force in science who has made a neighbor of the galaxies...
Oort was hailed: "A stellar force who has made a neighbor of the galaxies...
...pressed plastic affair which stands 5 feet high and ten feet across--when the pieces are fitted together properly. The Play-dome is intended for 3 to 13 year olds who, utilizing its vinyl-plastic cover, can make it a clubhouse, cave, mountain, trampoline set, igloo, or inter-stellar space station depending upon the relative imaginations and precocity. "Little girls," claim its inventors, "can use it for their own Teahuose of the August Moon...