Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile, the French rioters grew more arrogant with success. They called an organization meeting to merge war veterans, Poujadists and students into a Committee for Public Safety. Veteran leaders who had consulted Mollet were shouted down. "Why talk to Mollet?" the crowd yelled. Up sprang a little man with bulging eyes. Jean Baptiste Biaggi, a Corsican lawyer from Paris, had flown in, a week earlier, with the avowed purpose of whipping up a new French Revolution. "Victory is yours now! Don't drop it!" bellowed Biaggi. "Mollet's surrender was unconditional. Throw out his policy just...
High-strung Cinemactress Judy (A Star Is Born) Garland, two days after suing Movie Producer Sid (A Star Is Born) Luff for divorce (TIME, Feb. 13), cooled off, called the calling-off off. Breaking the news to the world in time-honored Hollywood fashion, Judy rang up Veteran Gossipist Louella O. Parsons, confided that Luft was not guilty of "extreme mental cruelty" as charged, added: "I thought something that wasn't true...
Instead of regular school, Artur had three tutors-one for French, one for English, and one for everything else. At 15 he was a veteran performer in the capitals of middle Europe and went to visit Paderewski, who relaxed the prodigy's initial tenseness by feeding him champagne. The treatment worked so well that a visiting music critic from Boston arranged for his first tour in the U.S. On the boat going over, the charming teen-ager-of-the-world lost all his cash learning poker, but he made a big hit with the fashionable New Yorkers...
...Chicago Tribune, which has never based one of its own men in Moscow, got around last week to setting up diplomatic relations. Off to cover Russia went William Moore, 55, a Trib veteran of nearly two decades' service, but not before the Trib squared the trip with its readers. Explained an editorial: "The Tribune's reason [for not staffing Moscow] has been simple. We did not think it worthwhile to subject one of our people to capricious despotism merely to make him a vehicle of Russian propaganda. Now the Russians say that they welcome correspondents and will...
Cappy Cappon, Princeton's veteran coach, will probably start Dave Fulcomer, his outstanding sophomore center; Fred Perkins, Don Davidson, Ken MacKenzie, and either Captain John DeVoe or Ben Spinelli. Devoe twisted his knee in Friday's game and is a doubtful starter...