Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the Victorian championships last week, Shields had every reason to congratulate himself on his counterploy. His pickup doubles team of veteran (30) Ted Schroeder and young (21) Tony Trabert was looking better than ever. A fortnight ago, the U.S. pair was within a game of beating the invincible Aussie combination of Frank Sedgman and Ken McGregor, U.S. and Wimbledon champions. Last week at Melbourne, with the top Aussies separated in a Gamesmanlike experiment by Hopman, Schroeder and Trabert breezed to the title in straight sets...
...play holds up, despite several performers who cannot act in drawing-room comedy, one or two others who cannot act at all. As Constance, Katharine Cornell is engagingly Candida-like, but she substitutes charm for lightness, good nature for irony. Only Veteran Grace George, as Miss Cornell's worldly-wise Victorian mother, achieves the right worldly-wise Restoration urbanity...
...moonfaced youngster marched onstage in Carnegie Hall with the self-assurance of a veteran. He gave the audience a confident smile, then signaled Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos to launch the New York Philharmonic-Symphony into the Paganini Concerto No. 1. From his first bow strokes, 15-year-old Michael Rabin proved he had something to be confident about. His technique was effortless, his tone strong and clean, his style and phrasing in the brilliant manner of Heifetz and Isaac Stern...
This writer, a veteran of the simple blood-letting days, went to give up this year's pint the other day and found a medium sized line of people by some tables at the door, reminiscent of registration. Several people in the line were busy showing that they were just all guts by pretentiously rolling up their sleeves while volunteer "grey ladies" behind the tables filled out their forms. A motherly looking grey lady shepherded men from the tables to a line of chairs from which she fed them into the temperature and pulse-taking department...
...downward trend in mid-year graduates is attributed to the marked decrease of veteran enrollment in the College. Since veterans are no longer a large factor in the undergraduate body, the war-born practice of facilitating degree-taking has become unnecessary...