Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...More daytime programing. ABC expects to do simultaneous telecasts of such veteran radio shows as The Breakfast Club and Mary Margaret McBride, then build new daytime programs around them...
...York's Jamaica race track, Veteran Jockey Earl Sande, 54, making a comeback after 21 years (TIME, Oct. 12), had his first winner in ten rides, a come-from-behind finish on a longshot (13-1) named Miss Weesie. In the winner's circle, with the cheers of the crowd ringing in his ears. Oldster Sande unabashedly let the tears run down his cheeks...
Died. Millard Mitchell, 50, veteran character actor of stage (The Front Page, Kiss the Boys Goodbye) and screen (12 O'Clock High, My Six Convicts); of cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...junior varsity football team yesterday elected Anthony A. Caimi '54 of Philadelphia and Winthrop House as captain for the 1953 season. Caimi, a three-year veteran guard for the J.V., stands five feet, ten inches, and weights in at 169 pounds...
Stroke of Fate (Sun. 9 p.m.) poses some intriguing iffy questions about history. First question: "What might have happened if Robert E. Lee had accepted Lincoln's offer to command the Union Army?" After consultation with Columbia Historian Allan Nevins, veteran Radio-TV Writer Mort Lewis decided that Lee's generalship would have ended the Civil War two years sooner, thus leading to an earlier assassination of Lincoln and Lee's election as President. Other Stroke of Fate teasers: Suppose Montcalm had defeated Wolfe at Quebec, Hamilton had killed Burr in their duel, Hitler had been killed...