Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nominated Brigadier General Patrick James Ryan, 51, to be chief of Army chaplains, with the rank of major general. Father Ryan, veteran of 28 years in the church, will be the second Roman Catholic to head the corps since the post was created...
Irston Barnes, president of the Audubon Society of Washington, spied two Brewer's blackbirds, a species usually found in the West. A veteran hiker passed out information about how to survive on sumac berries and roots. Another hiker urged his fellows to try living on parched corn alone, as the Indians did while on the trail, and another passed out a homemade, trail-ration bar made of dates, raisins and coconut. At mile 16, 20 of the weary dropped out (among them Editorial Writer Pusey, who had grown a blister) and took cars to a hunting lodge named...
Florida and Nassau both offer what many of its inhabitants term "the best swimming in the world." Spear fishing, open to novice as well as the veteran, is Nassau's most novel attraction. Round trip coach plane fare to Nassau is $160; to Florida $110 to $125. Hotel prices are about the same as in Bermuda...
...Wash. "Roughly the first half acts out the Iliad: Helen (Kay Ballard), the wife of a local dignitary, runs off with a drummer named Paris (Jonathan Lucas) and after a lot of commotion comes home to hubby. The second half acts out the Odyssey: Ulysses, a Spanish-American war veteran, imbibes city life at a neighboring seaport, goes to a water front dive, meets a Circe from the wrong side of the tracks, returns in the end to a Penelope busy with a patchwork quilt...
Died. James Aloysius Robert ("Honest Bob") Quinn, 84, veteran baseball executive, who went broke as boss of the Boston Red Sox (1923-33) before selling out to Lumber Millionheir Tom Yawkey, later became president of the Boston Braves (1936-45), director of the National Baseball Museum (1948-52); in Providence...