Word: stints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Center of the storm was a 42-year-old Arkansan, Dr. Neil Holland Sullenberger, 1939 graduate of the University of Arkansas' School of Medicine, who began to specialize in surgery as soon as he finished his Army stint. He won certification by the American Board of Surgery, and recognition as a skilled and sometimes daring operator. But Dr. Sullenberger had a knack for not getting along with people. In 1950 he was asked to leave the University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor after an assault-and-battery charge against him (the verdict: not guilty). That same year...
After semi-singing his way through more than 600 performances of Broadway's nonstop musical My Fair Lady, Actor Rex Harrison sailed away from his historic stint. Bound with him for Europe was his bride of five months, long-legged, luscious Cinemactress Kay (Les Girls) Kendall. The couple were headed for a seven-week holiday in Switzerland, then to Paris, where Kay will wrestle with Rex in a movie titled The Reluctant Debutante. When April trips round again next year, Harrison will be doing business in the same old stance-as misogynous Professor 'Enry 'Iggins...
Choice conducting plums have been dangled in Bernstein's face before, and he has turned them all down, except for a 1945-48 stint as full-time conductor of the now defunct New York City Symphony. Said he once: "I don't want to spend the rest of my life, as Toscanini did, studying and restudying, say, 50 pieces of music...
...upstate New York paper-mill worker, washed dishes through Colgate, took his law at Cornell, became at 23 a member of New York District Attorney Tom Dewey's clean-sweeping staff, sometimes presented as many as 40 minor cases a day. After a World War II stint in the Navy he got the job of chief counsel to the U.S. Senate Investigations Subcommittee, then headed by Michigan Republican Homer Ferguson. As a result of his committee work, Army General Benny Meyers was packed off to jail, and so was Five-Percenter John Maragon, in an investigation that unlocked...
...gradually becomes a degrading massacre of the innocents on both sides. The man who hurls this "J'accuse," Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, 33, is the brilliant editor of the liberal weekly L'Express and an ex-braintruster of the Mendes-France regime. To a six-month volunteer stint in 1956 as an active reserve officer in Algeria, he brought a young man's sharp nose for injustice and strong palate for raw truths. By his evidence, the Algerian fiasco seems to have entered the phase where a kind of Gresham's law of superheated nationalism applies...