Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Preparing for his debut as a song-and-dance man in a big benefit show, Sir Laurence Olivier studiously twirled a cane and practiced his footwork in a London gymnasium, where veteran musicomedy Hoofer Jack Buchanan pronounced the actor an apt but self-conscious pupil...
Ever since his Wheeling speech, the Tribune has endorsed McCarthy editorially, spotlighted his probes in blaring headlines, and defended him with colored caricatures of his opponents. Only once did Colonel McCormick falter. When General Zwicker faced the Senator's invective, army veteran McCormick reflected and said: "It seems to us that Senator McCarthy will better serve his cause if he learns to distinguish the role of investigator from the role of avenging angel." But after two weeks of retrospect, the Tribune eased back into the Senator's fold: "Senator McCarthy has been trying to clean out some of the subversive...
Dane, a two-year veteran, was the varsity's top cross country man this past season. He placed second in the Class B cross country run of the EISA Senior Divisional Championships at Lyndonville, Vt., and in many of the team's meets has skied in four events...
...Boston Bruins clinched a playoff berth in the National Hockey League by whipping the champion Detroit Red Wings, 4-2, last night. Four of the Bruins tallied goals, the opener being registered by veteran Capt. Milt Schmidt, the 225th of his major league career...
...veteran airman, Harold Harris, 58, was Chief of Staff for the Army's Air Transport Command in World War II, Pan American's chief of Atlantic operations when Northwest's board of directors hired him to take over 14 months ago. Under President Croil Hunter, who moved upstairs to board chairman, Northwest had been plagued by maintenance and pilot troubles, high operating costs and a shortage of equipment. Harris leased four DC-6Bs, ordered six Lockheed Super Constellations, and worked out long-range plans for modernization and expansion, including a new heavy-maintenance base at Minneapolis...