Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boards of trustees and substituted one board of regents to run the state's higher-education system. He was just getting into full stride in the middle of his first term when Georgia's Senator William J. Harris died. Governor Russell ran for the unexpired term, beat Veteran Congressman Charles R. Crisp, dean of Georgia's house delegation, in a red-hot primary, and went to Washington at 35, the youngest member of the U.S. Senate...
...Minister of Health, Macleod succeeds overworked Tory Veteran Harry Crookshank, 58, but Crookshank stays on as leader in the House of Commons. To solace Crookshank, Churchill also made him Lord Privy Seal, which is all honor and no work...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 16-In a despard attempt to slip under tomorrow's deadline for the 25-player limit the Mt. Auburn Clowns last night sent 23 1/2 players to the Wingashee Beach-combers of the Coast League in return for veteran 92-year-old manger Cornelius "Connie" Mack-U, who has come out of retirement for today's titanic tiff with D. C. D. Rogers Hahnsby's Rampaging Red-Eds. With only nine players left on his squad, Mack-U still voiced confidence last night. "We'll be like the old Gag-House Gang," he gurgled gleefully, "with such...
...Crimson, defending the Boston Dinghy Club Challenge Cup which it won last year, will be represented in Division A by veteran Johnny Bishop, with Butch Horner as crew. Charlie Hoppin will sail Division B on Saturday, crewed by Tim Brown, and Jimmy Nathanson will relieve Hoppin for Sunday's sailing, with Dean Howells his crew...
...York Yankee Second Baseman Jerry Coleman, 27, veteran of 57 combat missions as a dive-bomber pilot in World War II, switched from one champion's clothes to another's: Marine Corps green. Captain Coleman's final day in baseball featured a flawless fielding performance and a hot day at bat: four hits, climaxed by a rousing triple that brought the cheering Yankee Stadium crowd to its feet. ¶ Boston Red Sox Outfielder Ted Williams, 33, also called back as a Marine captain (he was a flying instructor in World War II), bowed out in what...