Word: star
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...framework of an unfinished house at age 9, he fell two stories to the concrete foundation, suffered nothing worse than a fractured and permanently stiffened left elbow. A natural southpaw, he had to learn to write with his right hand; but he played left-handed tennis well enough to star on his high school team and make the varsity at Yale. Despite his damaged arm, he enlisted in the Army in 1918, lying about his age to get in, won a field-artillery commission at 17 (the war ended before he got overseas...
Inevitably last week there was speculation that five-star Ambassador Murphy was resigning out of policy differences with Secretary of State Christian Herter. Not so, said Murphy with characteristically blunt diplomacy. "Why," said he, "this speculation is bunk. I even heard on some radio program that the reason that I was quitting was so I could be out of the State Department if the Democrats came in next year and this would make me available to be appointed Secretary of State. How crazy...
Before the Legionnaires left town, the Star recorded their activities in dozens of color pictures. This is more color than most newspapers use, but they use plenty. The increase in run-of-press color, i.e., in regular press runs as opposed to specially preprinted color, is a major development in U.S. journalism. Moving westward, its importance grows almost in geographical proportion: in the East, 52% of newspaper readers get multicolor dailies; in the Midwest, 87%, and in the Far West...
...retirement at the end of a long and lustrous career. In 1948, after 24 award-studded years (three Pulitzer Prizes) with the Baltimore Sun, Duffy left to try a hand at magazine cartooning for the Saturday Evening Post, drifted briefly back to newspapers-New York City's transitory Star and the Long
...learned hard-nosed football at West Virginia playing for Coach Greasy Neale, later coach of the pro's world champion Philadelphia Eagles. As a paratrooping major in the 82nd Airborne, he had made combat jumps in Normandy and at the crossing of the Rhine, won the Silver Star, Bronze Star and Purple Heart...