Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Australian-born Explorer Sir Hubert Wilkins, 64, brown-bearded veteran of ten Arctic and Antarctic expeditions and a submarine trip that took him within 400 miles of the North Pole, was appointed a geographer in the Research and Development Division of the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps...
Died. Roland Young, 65, veteran London-born cinemactor (Topper, Ruggles of Red Gap), whose clipped moustache, clipped accent and acidly debonair style made him a comic stand-by of the U.S. screen for more than two decades; in Manhattan...
...York City Dean lost his job last May after almost a year of attack from a Catholic Veteran group and the American Legion. Harold A. Lenz, Dean of Students at Queens College drew the fire of these groups shortly after his opposition to a proposed ban on renting College rooms to Communist or subversive groups. Lenz has been reassigned to the German department at Queens...
Chief credit for both the production and the coup belonged to Veteran Conductor Artur Rodzinski. La Scala had arranged with the Soviet Ministry of Culture to produce next season a revised version of the opera (on which, the ministry said, Prokofiev had been making "technical changes"). Conductor Rodzinski, who now lives in Florence, had an idea that he could beat La Scala to the punch. He remembered that the Metropolitan Opera had once planned to produce War and Peace and that Manhattan's Leeds Music Corp. had a copy of the score...
Thereupon Milton and his optician brother Julian found a veteran camera technician named Friend Baker, who jiffy-built a stereo-camera by lashing together two standard 35-mm. Mitchell cameras geared to shoot "in sync." Early in 1951 Natural Vision, as the Gunzburgs called their company, began to peddle its process to the big studios. Fox, Columbia and Paramount said no; Metro took an option and let it drop...