Word: legion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Young Democrats have joined Sen. Stephen M. Young of Ohio in a backblast at the American Legion for its criticism of Young because he spoke at a Communist-front organization...
...jolly veterans who comprise the American Legion's fun-loving 40 & 8 Society have been wrangling for ten years over the Legion's insistence that they drop their ban against admitting nonwhite members (American Indians are allowed). The Legion, which itself is interracial, pushed the question to a floor vote at the last convention (TIME, Sept. 7), but the integrationists lost. Authorized by his executive committee to the necessary steps, the Legion's new National Commander, Martin McKneally, Newburgh (N.Y.) lawyer and World War II Army major, last week did just that. He ousted...
...prances onstage dressed in not much more than a few sequins, a plume, and her smile. Unknown to most Folies patrons, Lydia Lova is in reality 2nd Lieut. Lydia Danuta de Lipski, one of France's greatest Resistance fighters. Last week the French government prepared to add the Legion of Honor medal to the Croix de guerre with bronze star awarded her by General Charles de Gaulle...
...Lydia enrolled in a dancing school in 1948, two years later was among the few chosen from hundreds of applicants for the Folies chorus, has been there ever since. Says Lydia: "It's not the Warsaw Opera Ballet, but I love it." Asked where she would pin her Legion ribbon, Lydia answered: "I'll wear it at work only for a State visit to the Folies-which is unlikely...
Secret Chuckles. Throughout the U.S., several hundred newsmen spend 30 to 35 generally dreary hours each week watching TV as part of their jobs as critics. They reach an impressive, if not impressionable, newspaper readership that rivals in number the legion of comic-strip fans. The New York Herald Tribune's John Crosby is syndicated in more than 90 papers, the Los Angeles Mirror-News''s Hal Humphrey in 87; in San Francisco...