Word: gallant
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...medicine, TV's new weeklies are turning to World War II. NBC will ship somebody called Ensign O'Toole out to the Pacific, while ABC will fight in both hemispheres and on all fronts: Combat will follow U.S. soldiers from Normandy across France and into Germany; The Gallant Men will campaign in Italy; and Ernest Borgnine, in McHale's Men, will skipper a PT boat in the South Pacific as a sort of Marty Fitzgerald Kennedy...
Their names, if they were married, were Peg and Tom, Jane and Bill, Jeremy and Jennifer. Single men were always called Brick or Brock or Bruce. Unmarried girls needed a gallant name; it was usually Helen. They lived in a smallish, unidentified city in an immemorial Indiana. The men spoke to each other in a language called kidding ("You old son of a gun"), and the women talked somberly about "our marriage'' as if marriage were a large, fragile china object one kept in the front hall. They led decent, busy lives, and the worst sinners among them...
Married. Jane Froman, 44, throaty songstress (With a Song in My Heart) who made a gallant comeback from near-death in a 1943 plane crash; and Rowland Smith 55, newspaperman in Columbia. Mo.; she for the third time, he for the second; in Columbia...
...Johnny Rotz, the horse that won both the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness last year, but broke down in the Belmont Stakes and now rated only 9-to-2 odds, dawdled twelve lengths behind the leaders through the backstretch, turned it on at the close to win by a gallant 2½ lengths. A well-beaten sixth: Mrs. Richard C. du Pont's five-year-old gelding Kelso, 1961's Horse of the Year and the 3-to-5 favorite at post time. Carry Back ran the mile in 1 min. 33 3/5 sec.-tying the track record...
...varsity heavyweights, in the second test of the season, made a gallant bid to overtake the leaders in the highlight event Saturday but couldn't quite make it. Trailing M.I.T. and Princeton for the body of the race, the Crimson made up much of the distance, only to finish a length behind M.I.T. and Princeton in that order. Rutgers finished fourth. The JV's, meanwhile, rowed well and earned a strong victory...