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1924 Lincoln (Nebraska) State Jrnl. 14 Apr. 8/1 (advt.) Wendell Hall, national radio star.

1932 Radio Times 29 July 279/3 (advt.) A permanent..record of your favourite radio stars.

1954 Times 7 Aug. 1/2 Teams include Mr. Jimmy Edwards, and the cup will be presented by another famous radio star, Miss Joy Nichols.

1980 P. Ableman Shoestring's Finest Hour i. 11 Lonely women who ring up famous radio stars..in the hope of getting to sleep with them.

2006 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 6 Dec. After Jackie split from her first husband, and one-time radio star ‘Ugly’ Phil O'Neil, she consulted psychics in an effort to get over the trauma of the experience.

1949 Sci. Amer. Sept. 38/1 The small spots are tiny enough to be considered ‘radio stars’.

1957 New Scientist 27 June 32/1 Ryle concludes that his weak radio stars are evidence of more crowded days when the universe was young.

1963 Times 20 Apr. 8/4 The first true radio stars—stars (in the ordinary sense) that emit radio waves at sufficient intensity to be detected and identified by radio telescopes—have been discovered by Sir Bernard Lovell.

1969 Times 18 Apr. 12/5 Pulsars, the radio stars whose clock-like regularity has so far eluded explanation.

1992 S. P. Maran Astron. & Astrophysics Encycl. 780/1 Radio stars..generate plasmas capable of emitting radio waves that can escape and be observed with Earth-based radio telescopes.

2001 Kenyon Rev. & Stand Spring 152 By the early 1950s it had been found that most of the so-called radio stars were actually a new kind of galaxy.

2004 D. H. Clark & M. D. H. Clark Measuring Cosmos v. 140 It was found to coincide with a faint optical starlike object, and it was surmised that 3C48 could be a ‘radio star’.