Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...liberty ..." But when it came time to deliver the speech, Ben Youssef ignored the French paragraph, appealed instead for the solidarity of Islam. The French were furious. To-teach the Sultan a lesson, they appointed an imperious and impetuous new Resident General : Alphonse Juin, topflight field soldier and veteran of long years of service in North Africa. An old-fashioned imperialist, Marshal Juin had his own Moroccan to set up against Ben Youssef: El Glaoui...
...Cleveland, 30-year-old Vic Wertz, the Indians' veteran first baseman and outfielder, now in his ninth major-league season, was stricken with a mild attack of polio. Wertz, whose long-ball hitting (14 homers, 55 runs batted in) has helped keep the Indians high up in the American League pennant race, was a standout batter of the last year's World Series (a .500 average, including one homer, one triple and two doubles). At week's end Wertz's doctors reported "no signs" of paralysis, but he will probably be out for the rest...
...Army Medical Corps' pint-sized Major Sammy Lee, 35, twice (1948, 1952) Olympic high-diving champion, 1953 winner of the Sullivan Trophy as the U.S.'s outstanding amateur athlete, and a Korean war veteran, disclosed that two Southern California real-estate men recently gave him a rough time when he was shopping for a $12,000 house. His sin: California-born Dr. Lee is of Korean ancestry. Explained one real-estate man to him: "I'm sorry, Doctor, but I have to eat, and I'd lose my job for selling to a nonwhite...
...newsmen, seeking gems of sagacity. Said he: "To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am." One reporter insistently pressed Baruch for the lowdown on where the world is headed. Grinned the sage of Hobcaw Barony: "I don't know." The reporter expressed amazement. Advised Veteran Pundit Baruch: "I don't see why a man should be more garrulous on his 85th birthday than he was on his 84th-or his 21st. I wanted to talk a hell of a lot when I was 21, but I don't at 85. Besides...
...Fair Dealers in Congress, none has a more durable record of sniping at business than Brooklyn's Veteran Democratic Representative Emanuel Celler. Back in 1922 he was elected on an antidepression, anti-Big Business platform, and, so long as the patchwork of tenements, corner drugstores and housing developments that he represents keeps on sending him back, he sees no reason to change his tactics.* In his time, rotund Manny Celler has whaled away at the steel industry and bank mergers, Wall Street and newsprint combines, even probed big-league baseball for suspected monopolistic tendencies (and why a hotdog cost...