Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pretty Debutante. Veteran Stage Director Herbert Graf did his part by freshening up Rigoletto's stage business. Verdi's music did the rest. Brilliantly paced by Conductor Alberto Erede, and magnificently sung and acted by a pair of Americans who are fast becoming one of the finest teams in Met history, Leonard Warren (Rigoletto) and Richard Tucker (the Duke), Rigoletto had even Olin
Wartime Recruit. Jim Nance, 50, a relative newcomer to the G.E. hierarchy, was picked by ex-President Charlie Wilson, who was impressed by Nance's work as a member of WPB's advisory board for industry. He was already a veteran in the electrical industry, had managed Frigidaire's commercial refrigeration department, bossed Zenith Radio's wartime production. Charlie Wilson liked his zip, enthusiasm and selling touch. He sent him to Chicago in 1946 as executive vice president of a G.E. subsidiary then called Edison General Appliance Co. The company's chief value...
...fiction may be in the doldrums, but good novels continue to come out of postwar Italy. The latest, and one of the best, is The Brigand, a tragic story of an army veteran who tries to play Robin...
Lordly Arrogance. When Michele Rende comes home, a veteran of the African campaign, the wretched villagers of Grupa immediately fear and admire him, though they do not know why. But there is a lordliness and arrogance in the gait of the man which impresses them all, especially 13-year-old Nino, the imaginative boy whom he befriends...
Soon the truculent Michele is picking quarrels. One of the men with whom he quarrels is found dead a few days later, and everyone assumes that Michele has killed him, particularly since the fellow has been carrying on an affair with Michele's sister. Disdainfully, the veteran declares his innocence, but only his young friend Nino believes him; he is sentenced to 13 years in prison...