Word: vet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wanna tell about a club," the old vet said, "ya gotta look at 'em down the middle...
...following years he did less quipping, but he still managed to make small-type headlines. Samples: OLD PETE, BROKE, IN VET HOSPITAL; ALEXANDER COLLAPSES; GROVER ALEXANDER SENT TO BELLEVUE; NECK BROKEN, ALEXANDER WALKS OUT OF HOSPITAL. Last week, at 63, Old Pete's troubles came to an end. Back in St. Paul, Neb., his old home town, he died peacefully in his sleep. Baseball fans, remembering the one-foot difference between hero and bum, remembered the record of one of baseball's greatest pitchers: 373 games won,* 90 by shutout, winning percentage...
...people from current Broadway shows, Cantor looked as durable and sentimental as ever. He re-enacted skits from musicals of the '20s and sang such old favorites as Ain't She Sweet? and Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me. Headlined Variety: "Cantor Sock in Debut ... Vet Showman a TV Natural." A twelve-city Hooper survey rated Cantor eleven points higher than CBS's competing Toast of the Town, long a runner-up to TV's perennial No. 1 attraction, Milton Berle...
...were a vet I would suggest you ought to be destroyed. As it is, I can only suggest that you climb Nelson's Monument and jump into Trafalgar Square. That is, if your back doesn't hurt too much...
While planning for veterans, officials should reconsider their policy regarding non-vet student families. There will always be a sizable number of married men here, and long-range housing plans should take them into consideration, as well as providing single graduate students with dormitory rooms at reasonable prices. The University officials say they do not want to go into the housing business, nor expend already short funds. But it would be poor policy to discriminate against students in future housing plans merely because they are married...