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...thirty last night, his hair disheveled, his the awry, and his clothes generally askew. On his face there was the look of a hunted man. The genial smile which usually characterizes the dapper old fellow was lost in an expression that can be described only as haunted. Terror, sheer stark terror gleamed in his eyes...
Albert D. ("Dolly") Stark was born on Manhattan's lower East Side, son of a second-hand clothes dealer who never had enough spare stock to supply his son with a coat to match his trousers. Small Stark envied the boy who lived across the street, whose name was Walter Winchell, and who owned a Buster Brown suit of blue serge. When he grew up Dolly Stark became a professional baseball player. He gave it up in 1921, went to Dartmouth as basketball coach three years later, kept up his interest in baseball by umpiring summers...
...profession at 62 and long past the length of service at which National League umpires are eligible for a $2,000 yearly pension, does nothing in the winter. He thinks he has never made a wrong decision in 33 years on the field. Among his colleagues, Dolly Stark has been distinguished for a variety of reasons. While continuing to coach basketball at Dartmouth, where a majority of under graduates prefer outdoor winter sports, he has worked himself up as an umpire until last season his salary was $9,000, almost as big as Klem's. Voting by players...
...Stark defeat or startling upset face the Varsity swimming team when it meets Providence Boys Club in the pool here tomorrow afternoon...
...Stark Young's "So Red The Rose" contains the germ of a truly dramatic idea, and the sensitive adaptation by Sherwood Anderson and Lawrence Stallings makes the most of it. The scene is laid in Missouri during the Civil War, where we find Randolph Scott in the role of the forerunner to the modern conscientious objector. He "likes to see things grow," and hates destruction. His mature and civilized ideology run counter to the inflamed and destructive passions of the times. Consequently he is socially ostracized, is called a coward by his beloved cousin (Margaret Sullavan), and is torn...