Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Romping past the Royal County Hotel, the paraders roused the day's distinguished guest-that horny veteran of the pits and stormy rebel of the Labor Party, Aneurin Bevan himself. Past his hotel balcony streamed rugged oldtimers who well remembered the "bad old days" Nye Bevan liked so much to talk about, and younger, well-dressed miners and their ladies, with pockets bulging with money-more than enough for each to take a holiday to Paris...
...Japan, 38-year-old Hanama Tasaki runs a ham and bacon business by day, a nightclub after sundown. He also writes novels. Hawaiian-born, U.S.-educated and a veteran of the Japanese army, he made his U.S. fiction debut in 1950 with Long the Imperial Way, a ploddingly serious novel about Japanese infantrymen. To his publishers, at least, the book set Tasaki up as "the principal interpreter of present-day Japan to the United States...
Back at Princeton Seminary last week, the veteran preacher gave a quiet sermon to 331 of his fellow ministers assembled for the seminary's summer Institute of Theology. His subject: "The Four Winds and the Voice of God."* To an audience of professionals, his rolling periods, the long Biblical analogies, the references to the writings of the Founding Fathers were in themselves an epitome of a great but vanishing style of church preaching. His message might stand as the valedictory of a man to whom theological controversy has never been so important as the saving of souls...
...descendant of the ancient pentathlon,* the decathlon is the most searching test of athletic skill and endurance ever devised: four running events (100, 400 & 1,500 meters and the 110-meter hurdles); six field events (javelin, discus, shotput, pole vault, high jump and broad jump). At 21, already a veteran of eight decathlon meets, four times national champion and the world recordholder, handsome Bob Mathias meets to a remarkable degree the physical specification for this Olympic challenge. He is tall (6 ft. 3 in.), with the reaching stride of a hurdler or high-jumper, and husky enough...
...state basketball player in high school. At Stanford, after giving up football for two years, he tried out for the team last fall as a junior. His plunging power and breakaway speed (his 96-yd. kickoff run-back against U.S.C. sparked Stanford to the Pacific Coast championship) prompted veteran Coach Pop Warner, who coached both Thorpe and Ernie Nevers, to say: "Mathias is the closest thing to a miracle worker I've seen in 60 years." After a few rounds of golf, Bob already shoots...