Word: posts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...acting assistant squad leader, donated new furniture to the company recreation hall, and according to a fellow trainee, "when he's free at night he goes to the telephone center and makes calls. On weekends the place is flooded with girls, and they drive him around the post...
...hotelkeepers with five-buck rooms sold out at $25 a flop, to hash houses peddling 60? breakfasts for $2, to taxi drivers with their meters off, charging fat, flat fees. It belonged to loud, lubricated crowds, to light-fingered dips tiptoeing daintily among the juleps. But right up to post time, the 84th running of the Kentucky Derby belonged to a big-barreled California colt named Silky Sullivan (TIME, March...
...even the parade to the post belonged to Silky, his red coat gleaming through the muggy afternoon, a red shadow roll across his nose and a red ribbon braided into his tail. And the cheers were still for Silky when the field ran away from him at the start. He fell back nearly 30 lengths, but this was the way it was supposed to be. No one was worried. There was even a special battery of television cameras trained on Silky. There was no room for him in the main lens, which focused so closely on the leaders that televiewers...
...solidly researched series on desegregation problems in the Saturday Evening Post, Freelance Newsman John Bartlow Martin, 42, last week won the University of Illinois' Benjamin Franklin Magazine Award "for distinguished writing, involving original reporting in which serious obstacles had to be overcome." It was his fourth Franklin Award in five years-a record unmatched by any other writer...
Rich planned it that way all along. He has enjoyed his 31 years on the Art Institute's staff, 13 as director, but he has a better job-which pays less. His new post: director of the Worcester (Mass.) Art Museum, the little dream museum that in 1954 won the late Francis Henry Taylor away from his job as director of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum...