Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were meat prices so high? Last week Joseph Marion Hartkopf, who runs a chainstore meat counter in suburban Woodlawn, Ala., gave his explanation. A married Army veteran with two children, Butcher Hartkopf wrote a letter to the Birmingham News...
Each time he ran his elevator up or down the four-story building, Ernst Heuszler, a wounded Wehrmacht veteran, got a little relief from the afternoon heat. He looked at his watch-3:42. Heuszler decided he would have a beer on his way home. Two minutes later, as he recalled afterward, "I felt as if I suddenly had wings...
...weeks of interviewing ("I wanted someone who knew the inner workings of the Communist Party-I didn't want him to write from textbooks"), Saudek chose 34-year-old Morton Wishengrad to do the script. Wishengrad is a radio writer who also happened to be an anti-Communist veteran of David Dubinsky's successful fight against the Commies in the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union...
...audience had never seen Orpheus treated so splendidly. Veteran Salzburg critic Max Graf was not being intentionally sarcastic when he said that Bruno Walter's severe 1932 version "was only greater vocally...
...also named an executor, began at ten as a newsboy, has been with the paper since 1922. "This might show the Russians," he exulted, "that capitalists in this country treat the workers right fine." ¶ Supervising Managing Editor Michael W. ("Mike") Flynn, 59, an owl-faced, Washington-born news veteran. ¶Circulation Director Harry A. Robinson, 59, a Russian-born, Hearst-trained veteran who came from Boston on temporary assignment to the Times-Herald in 1931, and stayed on. ¶ Advertising Director Edmund F. Jewell, 52, a former publisher of the Manchester (N.H.) Union-Leader. ¶Mechanical Superintendent (and onetime...