Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...single character which links these sequences together is called "Joe." He is presented as an unemployed veteran who finds that he can look into a person's eyes and tell what that person dreams about or wants to dream about. So Joe puts a shingle up on his door saying "Dreams That Money Can Buy," and soon his waiting room is swarming with people, each wanting to buy or sell a dream. As Joe looks into a customer's eyes his technicolored dream is shown on the screen. They are like nothing you've ever seen, unless--but then that...
Died. Royal Cortissoz, 79, sprightly, bang-haired veteran art critic (the New York Herald Tribune), painting's No. 1 champion of traditionalism ("Cézanne . . . never fully mastered his craft"); of a heart ailment; in Manhattan...
...Largo. A veteran recovers his self-respect fighting gangsters. Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lionel Barrymore, Claire Trevor et al. do fine work in John Huston's adaptation of a Maxwell Anderson play (TIME...
...youthful General Gus Beale to see that his men do. Unlike most generals in fiction, Beale is not only a very likable man, he is also fit to be a general. A brilliant fighter pilot, a veteran of Bataan and the North African front, he is now being kept out of harm's way in Florida, his every move watched by the men in Washington who must decide whether or not to choose him as commander of the expected air assault on Japan...
...Veteran Dartmouth coach Tommy Dent commented after the game that the Crimson was "one of the best college soccer teams I've seen. They know where the ball is going...