Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spot a veteran TIME writer is to ask him how many cover stories he has written. When he says, "I can't remember." you can be sure that he is a real veteran. One such man is Walter ("Sandy") Stockly recently the guest of honor at an office party celebrating his 20th anniversary as a TIME writer...
...Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation: Wilbur App Dexheimer, 52, veteran (25 years) Reclamation Bureau engineer. Dexheimer was an associate engineer on the Hoover Dam project, built airstrips in China during World War II as General "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell's staff engineer, helped solve postwar dam problems in Australia, Formosa and Mexico. His name was submitted by Interior Secretary Douglas McKay after the White House turned down the nomination of Marvin Nichols, a hydraulics and sewage engineer, and a Texas Democrat. Although he supported Ike in 1952, Nichols also served Harry Truman as nickel adviser to General Services Administrator...
...Ambassador to Yugoslavia: James W. Riddleberger, 48, foreign-service careerist, veteran of the postwar Battle for Berlin (political adviser to General Lucius Clay and High Commissioner John J. McCloy) and, for the past year, director of the State Department's Bureau of German Affairs...
When directors undertake to dust off Shakespeare plots, the noise of the vacuum cleaner all too often drowns out the play, but Director Tyrone Guthrie, a veteran of the Old Vic, never allows that to happen. The story of All's Well, lifted from Boccaccio, is about Helena, a poor physician's daughter married by royal command to a snobbish young count. The groom runs off to the wars before the wedding day has even reached the cocktail hour. The rest of the play tells how Helena plots her way into her husband's bedchamber and eventually...
Divorced. Bela Lugosi, 68, veteran Hollywood cinemonster (Dracula); by his third wife, Lillian Arch Lugosi, 41, on the ground that his "unfounded jealousy" constituted mental cruelty; after 20 years of marriage, one son; in Los Angeles...