Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wesleyan boasts a veteran quintet that easily defeated Clark in its opening game, 78 to 53. The Cardinals are led by 6 ft., 5 in. center Don Skinner, who led the squad in scoring and rebounding as a junior last year. He plays the pivot position in Wesleyan's attack...
...chaotic Middle East, worries over an heir to the throne are certainly preferable to plots to topple it. A veteran U.S. observer in Teheran allowed himself some tempered optimism about Iran: "I wouldn't say we are confident, but the situation today looks a helluva lot better than it did two or three months...
...opera scores, as last week's Jackson performances demonstrated, are tautly constructed, neatly professional jobs, full of garish dramatic effects. The Soldier, based on a story by Roald Dahl, is a moody study of a World War II veteran who returns home psychologically scarred, suspects his wife of trying to drive him insane, and eventually winds up in a mental institution. To this curdled tale Composer Engel fitted a score shot through with warm lyrical flights that died suddenly in derisively dissonant evocations of the chaos in the soldier's mind. Engel's fellow Jacksonians responded enthusiastically...
...Crimson also has internal problems. Thirty-year veteran coach Hal Ulen has not yet recovered from a summer bursitis operation, but Coach Brooks says that according to the present forecast Ulen "is expected back sometime this season." Until then, the team will be coached by Brooks, the freshman coach and Ulen's assistant for the past 14 years...
...Seat, veteran fleshpeddler and music lover, was sore. The singer whose contract he wanted to buy had everything-a real rock 'n' roll talent and a real gone name. But Seat only had $25,000 to offer, and the kid's record contract alone was worth $40,000. So Elvis Presley stayed with Colonel Tom Parker back there in the fall of 1955 (RCA Victor got the record contract), and all Agent Seat could do was to try to latch onto a suitable substitute. He promptly chased down to Memphis after some cornball named Harold Jenkins...