Word: stalwarts
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Edward H. Moore, 71, Oklahoma, a rugged oil-millionaire ex-Democrat drafted by Republicans to beat New Deal Stalwart Josh...
...Burger was a distinct surprise. His grey suit was neat and quiet, his thin brown hair slicked down tightly, his deep-set blue eyes calm. As a witness he was courteous, cooperative, almost eager. Only once did he seem at all what everyone had expected: a young, heel-clicking stalwart of Hitler's "master race." That was when, needled because his attorney asked him if he had been promised immunity for testifying for the U.S., he stiffened, shot out his jaw and said haughtily: "I may remind you that you are speaking to a German soldier. The United States...
...cell. Hostage Prokosch, a famous actor, "confessed" to the "murder" because a heroic exit would let him die believing that he was a better man than his wife's lover, Hostage Lobkowitz. Hostage Preissinger, who wanted to save his skin, tried to pin the murder on Hostage Janoshik, stalwart member of the Underground movement. Dr. Wallerstein, psychoanalyst and Hostage No. 5, asked only that he be allowed to record the psychological behavior of his four doomed mates, so that his memory would live as the author of a unique case history...
That conclusion is no surprise to anyone, for not one of the starting team today was on the line at the opening kickoff in the Yale game last fall. Gone is the stalwart line that proved itself impervious to all the big guns such teams as the Midshipmen could muster last year; a forward wall which many dubbed the greatest in Harvard history. And in its place today there is a front line which boasts only three lettermen; three are Sophomores, and the other, Len Cummings, was on pro last year...
...halls of Congress up rose Oklahoma's Senator Josh Lee, to tell what his Military Affairs subcommittee thought of cargo planes and the men who scoffed at them. Senator Lee had always been an Administration stalwart, slow to criticize an official word or deed. Now his words sounded as if a new, fighting spirit were abroad on Capitol Hill...