Word: star
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...watched that for a short time. All hands got a glimpse of fine old Navy tradition when Des Moines steamed past Britain's cruiser H.M.S. Tiger, the flagship of NATO Mediterranean Commander Admiral Sir Alexander Bingley. Tiger boomed a 21-gun salute, her band blared out The Star-Spangled Banner, Des Moines's band blasted back God Save the Queen, and Essex's band tootled out with When the Saints Go Marching...
Since then, according to refugees from Sinkiang who have made it to Hong Kong, Moslem resistance has flickered across Sinkiang. In the Altai mountains, tribesmen fought Red troops for two months. From Kara Kash came word of a 23-year-old Moslem woman called Pashakhan, who, waving a star-and-crescent flag, led a crowd from a mosque to sack the local police station and to fight on with captured weapons for two weeks before being taken and shot...
...wired Coe to Director Arthur Penn in Hollywood. Next day Playwright William Gibson was equally convinced. Anne was Gittel for him too. "So how was the Coast?" she greeted him. "Lousy, huh?" The Seesaw team, which had already signed Henry Fonda for the male lead, had found its real star...
...divorce settlement for his client Rita Hayworth. But his real forte lay in endlessly championing a multitude of causes, some of them conflicting. Though he had once served as counsel to the Hearst publications, he published New York City's far left PM (renamed the New York Star) for a year (1948) until it folded. As a Republican, he managed Wendell Willkie's 1940 campaign in the West, but since then supported every Democratic presidential nominee...
professional soldiers who have won star-studded reputations in the postwar business world, the out standing example is General Lucius DuBignon Clay, the compact (5 ft. 9 in., 170 tbs.), hard-driving chairman and chief executive of Continental Can Co. West Pointer ('18) Clay, 62, carried out one of the biggest logistical jobs in history as director of materiel in the Army Service Forces in World War II. After war's end, as commander in chief of U.S. forces in Europe and Military Governor of the U.S. Zone, he directed the reordering and rebuilding of a major segment...