Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This time he was going back to the front with handsome recognition from his country: the Distinguished Service Cross* and Silver Star Medal for gallantry, the Purple Heart with two clasps, signifying his three battle wounds. Two of his wounds were still bandaged; the third did not show. In his last brush with the Jap, Arthur Wermuth had been shot in the chest, close to the heart. When he announced that he was going back to the front, the doctors in the tent hospital shook their heads and let him go. The wound was still open and draining as Wermuth...
Prize alumnus of the Todd School for Boys in Woodstock, Ill. is a chub-cheeked young precocity named Orson Welles. Silver-haired Headmaster Roger ("Skipper") Hill, watching Orson's progress, has hoped ever since to turn up a few more like him. Last week Orson Welles made the lightning stroke more possible by giving his alma mater a check for $10,000, enough for five two-year scholarships...
...woman delegate, a Social Democrat, was mourning her son who had fallen in the first War. A Nazi delegate shouted: "That's what you old nanny-goats were made for!" After Hitler came to power, mothers of four, six and eight children were awarded, respectively, medals of iron, silver, gold...
Coach Mel Collard will field three of last year's starting five which defeated Harvard 48 to 38. They are captain and leading scorer Jim Cassidy, right forward, bear-like Charley Thomas at right guard, and Howie Mitchell at the pivot position. Newcomers will be Joey Silver at left forward and Red Madden at the other guard...
...than his thankless role, the real heroes of Captains are Director Michael Curtiz and his five cameramen, who caught the matchless greens and browns of Canada's infinite north-country; the black-and-crimson spit & polish of the Northwest Mounties; the kaleidoscopic carnival of the training field; the silver splash of bushers' planes plopping into lonely lakes; the ominous shine of penguin-bellied bombers groaning up from the Newfoundland shore on their weary way to England...