Word: veteran
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...work to bring him down, by whatever method it could. The alternative for Britain was a disastrous loss of international prestige. On second thoughts, some British editorialists (though not all: see cartoon) were grateful to Dulles for having postponed a hasty solution by force. In the London Times, veteran Diplomat Anthony Eden got a lesson in diplomacy from one of his former diplomats, Sir Ralph Stevenson (until last year British Ambassador to Egypt). "Action which would result in a legacy of ill will would defeat our object," wrote Stevenson. "And in politics it is never wise to leave the opposition...
Last week when word of his record-breaking flight in late July leaked out at the convention of the Air Force Association in New Orleans. Lieut. Colonel Everest was on his way to a new assignment at the Armed Forces Staff College. Everest, a veteran of more than 14 flying years, was not bothered by the fact that another pilot would soon be flying his plane in altitude tests perhaps at speeds faster than his record. "I've accomplished my mission at Edwards." the world's fastest man told his parents back in Fairmont, W. Va., where...
...taking race entries and keeping files, Kilroe was soon making up handicap weights of his own, comparing his judgment with Campbell's. And he learned early that his boss insisted on an aide with opinions of his own. When he returned from the wars in 1945, a veteran of the 11th Armored Division, Jimmy Kilroe was named assistant handicapper...
Died. John Augustin McNulty, 60, old-time newsman, bar correspondent and gentle troubadour of cabbies, rummies and $2 bettors in Manhattan (Third Avenue, New York) and other places where elbows are bent (A Man Gets Around), veteran sketch writer for The New Yorker; of a heart attack; in Wakefield...
Died. Albert Woolson, 109, last surviving Union veteran of the Civil War,* at 17 enlisted (October 1864) as a drummer in the 1st Minnesota Heavy Artillery Regiment, traveled with Union occupation forces through Tennessee but saw no action; of lung congestion; in Duluth. Chipper, cigar-smoking Woolson was senior vice commander of the once influential (peak membership in 1890: 408,489) Grand Army of the Republic, which held its last encampment...