Word: veteran
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...Crimson attack, with only one veteran lineman, Berk Johnson, to steady it, is Munro's question mark. Dana Getchell and Pete Baker are last year's reserves starting today. Win Knowlton, '53's freshman captain, who didn't play last year, and Juan Rodrigues complete the first line. Larry Leonard and Bernard Florin, who saw some action last year, will team with veteran Bob Harding in the halfback line...
...nothing for the Crimson booters this year, experts around the Business School Field are sagely commenting. With a veteran defense coupled with a rookie offense, Coach Bruce Munro may turn out a championship eleven, and then again he may have a complete flop. If the untried forward line pans out anywhere near as well as last year's Munro should have a pleasant season...
...forward line of Johnson, Getchell, Rodriguez or Seaga, Baker or Beer, and Knowlton has plenty of spirit and guts but does not have the skill of last year's, and is not expected to do as well as the veteran defense. This fall's games will probably be low scoring for both the Crimson and the opposition. Frank Davies will probably see a lot of action in the forward line as an experienced reserve, and sophomores Steve Joyce and Juan Vollenwilder have shown well...
...Latin America. For the key post of ambassador in Caracas, President Truman last week nominated Fletcher Warren, 55, onetime ambassador to Nicaragua and Paraguay, who has served for the past year as director of the State Department's Office of South American Affairs. Like his predecessor, the veteran Norman Armour, Warren is a career diplomat and an old Latin America hand. He should be at home among the 30,000 Texans now living and working in oil-minded Venezuela. Six feet seven inches tall, he was born in Wolfe City, Texas, worked his way through the state university...
...Said one veteran operagoer: "I've heard Otello several dozen times, but Nelli is the first Desdemona I can recall who sang the Ave Maria as if it were a prayer and not an aria...