Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hurt by the loss of veteran wingman Ned Bliss, Cooney Weiland's sextet takes on defending champion Princeton tonight at 9 p.m. in the Garden in its second try to clinch the Pentagonal crown. Dartmouth and Boston University class in the 7 p.m. preliminary...
This country has always felt a great debt to the men who fight its wars. Massachusetts helps to pay its obligation by granting veterans civil service preference. Since military service so often breaks into career plans, veterans deserve special consideration when they seek employment with the Commonwealth. But when politicians use this deserved favoritism to bid for veteran votes, they endanger the soundness of the state's civil service system...
...Massachusetts civil service lists any veteran who can pass the qualifying examination is placed ahead of qualified applicants, no matter how high their scores, who do not have wartime military records. Disabled veterans automatically rate the top of the list. Although many state jobs require little skill, certain others, such as highway engineer, demand considerable aptitude and training. In these instances, Massachusetts may be forced to bypass more qualified men in hiring the highest ranking veterans. Today, when nearly all applicants are veterans, the law makes little difference; in ten years, such a preference system may mean a real loss...
Died. Augustin Duncan, 80, veteran Broadway actor (A Man of the People, Lute Song) and producerdirector, brother of the late dancer Isadora Duncan and Poet-Lecturer Raymond Duncan; of a heart attack; in New York City. In the late '20s, at the height of his career, he began losing his sight but continued to act, in 1932 successfully played the part of the blind beggar in Synge's The Well of the Saints, acted other roles with such skill that audiences often forgot that he could...
...farmer. When World War II began, he joined the South African Air Force, but soon "lost his temper" and was put under arrest. He escaped by pole-vaulting the prison stockade, hopped a train to Durban and enlisted in the artillery under a fake name. Demobilized in 1945, a veteran of Anzio and Cassino, he set about the more serious business of fighting crocodiles...