Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stringer E. Michael Salzer cabled that the customary lutfisk and schnapps were plentiful. As usual, he planned to be on hand for the huge bonfire on Skansen, the famous open-air museum overlooking the city, and the annual rendition of Tennyson's New Year's poem by Veteran Actor Anders de Wahl. Along with other male Dubliner's, Stringer Alan Montgomery may kiss as many girls as he can during the five minutes after midnight...
...Veteran Dramatist Maxwell Anderson, who once took an ad to call critics "a sort of Jukes family of journalism." Even this season, when his Anne of the Thousand Days (TIME, Dec. 20) set critics to reaching for their superlatives, Anderson was not mollified. With fellow members of the Playwrights' Company and Co-Producer Leland Hayward, Anderson decided to put the critics in their place by not taking any display ads nor quoting a word of their praise...
Before a Senate subcommittee investigating business profits last week sat U.S. Steel Corp.'s Ben Fairless, giving the Senators the facts on his company's high earnings. Midway in his testimony, Wyoming's hawk-browed New Dealing Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, veteran critic of big business, opened up on a favorite subject: the steel shortage...
Anna Roosevelt Boettiger, veteran newspaperwoman (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Phoenix Arizona Times), currently collaborating on a radio commentary with her mother, leaped joyously back into the publishing swim as editor of the Woman, a national monthly magazine...
...places on any U.S. campus where 3.2 beer is sold, the jukebox blared Slow Boat to China. A waiter deftly scooped the head off three beers with one flick; a lone engineer, studying in a corner, made a quick calculation on his slide rule; and a tired-looking veteran's wife smacked her squalling youngster smartly on his bottom. Alumnus John Muir wouldn't have recognized the old place...