Word: veteran
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...biggest single source of suggestions is TIME readers, who send in an average of 300 ideas each week. They come from all over the world. There is one consistent contributor who lives in New Zealand; there are eight regular contributors who are currently living in the Ohio Penitentiary. One veteran MISCELLANY correspondent is Captain Frank Luckel, U.S. Navy (ret.), now a member of the California state legislature, who sent in his first contribution...
...Yankees beefed up their roster for the sixth time in six years with a National League veteran. They picked up the St. Louis Cardinals' hustling, hard-hitting (lifetime average: .305) Outfielder Enos ("Country") Slaughter for a bargain price: a rookie pitcher and the promise of three minor leaguers. Durable Enos, 37, a remnant of the rowdy "Gashouse" era, roamed the outfield for the Cards for 13 seasons, played in 143 games last year, helped whip the Yanks the last time they lost a World Series...
Dexter Lewis, who did not play against any of the big teams in Dixie after spraining his ankle in the first game against Stevens, will see limited action. Jim Telfer, a veteran, plagued by a bad knee and stomach trouble thus, far, and Tim Anderson, who didn't make the trip will both be ready for play...
Secure in his top rank among contemporary U.S. composers of symphonic music, Aaron Copland last week took the plunge into opera. Shy about his venture, Veteran (53) Composer Copland first thought of launching The Tender Land (a story of the rural Midwest) far from the calloused ears of Manhattan critics ("I thought maybe Canada"). Then came an irresistible offer to open it at the New York City Opera, and Copland gave...
Died. Thomas Evans Riddle, 107, one of the four surviving Confederate veterans (the sole living Union veteran: Albert Woolson, 107, of Duluth, Minn.); in Austin, Texas...