Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last January they counterattacked. In a swift and skillful political coup, while Craig was keeping a speaking engagement in Topeka, Kans.. they ousted Noland Wright, pro-Craig chairman of the Republican state committee, and installed 32-year-old Paul Cyr, an O.S.S. veteran of World War II, handpicked by Jenner and Capehart...
...city room of the crusading St. Louis Post-Dispatch (circ. 391,890), nothing stirs up a storm faster than a half-told story. Three years ago Veteran City Editor Sam Armstrong got just such an incomplete story from the wire services. The Air Force, said the story, had received no acceptable bids on an $11 million construction job for nearby Scott Air Force Base, although similar work was going ahead on air bases all over...
...also announced yesterday that the current varsity tennis team had established a John M. Barnaby Award in honor of the veteran coach. The plaque is to be presented each year to the most valuable member of the squad. The first award will be made next spring...
...Very little general benefit," concludes Hedley V. Cooke, a veteran of the U.S. consular service in Turkey and Palestine, writing in the current Middle Eastern A/fairs. "Large foreign investments have not yet stimulated any cooperative economic planning for the good of the entire region...
...changes in the Crimson lineup are expected this afternoon. McDonald should start behind the plate, Anderson at first, Bill Cleary at second, Art Noyes at short, and Ray Maesaka or Jim Rahal at third. Veteran Ed Krinsky opened at shortstop Saturday, but his still-weak leg forced him to retire in favor of Noyes. Rahal played third at New Haven. It is doubtful whether Krinsky's knee will allow him to play much today either...