Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Berman will be racing in his third big-time 600 in the last two years. Last year he finished third twice against the best runners in the East. Tonight he will be up against two Olympic prospects, veteran Mal Whitfield and George Rhoden. Whitfield, however, has been having his troubles indoors, while Berman has shown he can stick within range of Rhoden...
...members of General Matthew Bunker Ridgway's Honor Guard-strapping six-footers, starched and polished, who stand their appointed watches day & night at the entrance and in the gleaming marble corridors. In the dead of night last week, Honor Guard Corporal Linwood C. Smith, a Purple Heart veteran of nine months in Korea, took a ten-minute break, wandered into Ridgway's outer office. There he saw a box of Whitman's Sampler chocolates. Knowingly and willfully, Corporal Smith did then & there remove and eat five pieces of candy-four nougats and one mint-and he gave...
...Michigan mine operator, Carlson is a first-rate geologist who has taught at the University of Michigan, knows Eskimo, and is a veteran of two major expeditions to Greenland. In 1937 he joined the faculty of the University of Minnesota, served as professor and director of admissions until World War II called him to Washington. Finally, after three years as a top consultant on Arctic affairs, ex-Colonel Carlson was ready for a presidency-first at the University of Delaware, then at Vermont...
Depression Years. That was in 1927. This week Dr. Starke, 52, a veteran of 24 years' practice in Sanford (pop. 11,700), opened a new $50,000 clinic (about half the cost came from his savings, the rest from a bank loan). Meantime, he had established a solid record of helping his race, and some white folks too. During the depressed 19305, Dr. Starke formed a team with Seminole County's overworked public-health nurse, Mrs. Frances McDougal. Together they toured the county, treating hookworm and giving inoculations. Though he never offered his services to whites ("I didn...
...rights are more important than my legs," declared James Kutcher, legless veteran in a speech sponsored by the Harvard Liberal Union in Leverett Junior Common Room last night. Kutcher was dismissed from his job as a clerk for the Veterans Administration by the VA Loyalty Board because of his membership in the Socialist Workers Party...