Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...memorandum that passed down through the Air Force recently warned: "Our No. 1 problem within the Air Force is the current and future shortage of trained, experienced men . . . During this year we may lose as many as 200,000 men. Among them will be veteran pilots and experienced staff officers." The memo could have included top air commanders, for last week the head of the Strategic Air Command's combat-ready Eighth Air Force, 43-year-old Major General John B. Montgomery, resigned from the service. A non-West Pointer (Wofford College, Spartanburg, S.C.), Montgomery was a colonel...
...cars, e.g., Mercedes, Ferrari, Jaguar, and little cars, e.g., Gordini, MG, Porsche, racing side by side on a strip that in some places is little wider than an old-fashioned two-lane U.S. highway. During the trials, the Mercedes team's Pierre Levegh, a 49-year-old veteran of 20 years' driving, coasted into the pits after one close brush with a little 2-liter French Gordini and told a friend: "We have to get some sort of signal system working. Our cars go too fast." But there were other things to think about when race day dawned...
...High in the Himalayas above the Nepal-Sikkim border, members of an expedition led by Britain's Dr. Charles Evans (a veteran of the Hunt-Hillary climb) remembered their manners and halted a few feet from the summit (28,146 ft.) of Mt. Kanchenjunga to avoid offending local gods. Even so, they earned credit for conquering the world's third highest peak (after Everest, 29,028 ft., and Godwin Austen or K2, 28,250 ft.), the highest mountain until then unclimbed...
...Ambassador to Liberia. A onetime banker and a business and advertising manager of the Chicago Defender, Jones was for 26 years an executive in Chicago's South Center Department Store. Last year he accepted an appointment as director of the Foreign Operations Administration mission in Liberia. A veteran of both World Wars, Georgia-born Jones became one of the highest ranking Negro Army officers (brigadier general) in World...
Married. Martha Wright, 29, sprightly singing star of stage and television (The Martha Wright Show), seasoned veteran of a record 1,047 performances as Nurse Nellie Forbush in the hit musical South Pacific; and George J. Manuche Jr., 34, New York restaurateur; in Newburgh...