Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Long Chance. The moment had come for President Auriol to call on 55-year-old André Marie, a veteran of Buchenwald, a member of Herriot's moderately conservative Radical Socialist Party, and a short-lived Premier (35 days) back in 1948. Said Herriot "We should show no party preoccupations. I beg of you with all my soul, think only of France...
...Chantilly, France's Roger Lagarde beat Britain's Harry Bentley, 2 and 1, for the French Amateur Golf Championship, ending a two-year U.S. monopoly. Veteran Bentley had won the title twice before young (19) Lagarde was born...
Died. Douglas Southall Freeman, 67, Pulitzer Prizewinning historian, authority on the Confederacy and its generals, longtime (1915-49) editor of the Richmond News Leader; of a heart attack; in Richmond. Son of a Confederate veteran, Editor Freeman rigidly scheduled every minute of his 17-hour working day ("Time is irreplaceable"), ran his newspaper like a tidewater plantation, breezed through two daily radio broadcasts and more than 100 lectures a year, kept working on scholarly, detailed biographies of his favorite Southerners. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his four-volume life of Lee in 1935, Historian Freeman brilliantly analyzed Confederate failure...
Died. Sir Godfrey Tearle, 68, veteran English Shakespearean actor who last appeared in the U.S. with Katharine Cornell in Antony and Cleopatra (1947), and whose striking resemblance to the late F.D.R. brought him the role of the wartime President in MGM's 1947 A-bomb epic, The Beginning or the End; of cardiac asthma; in, London...
...veteran Alpinist, Benuzzi conceived the scheme of walking out of the poorly guarded camp, scaling Mount Kenya, and then-since there was little prospect of getting back to Italian-controlled areas-of blandly returning to captivity. His scheme had no practical end: it was simply Benuzzi's idea of self-expression...