Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Producer Arthur Tourtellot, also a veteran of the Eisenhower story, shows little caution in his open enthusiasm for the new series, MOT's first TV release since dropping its traditional movie-theater productions to concentrate on television. After a look at a New York Times review of MOT documentaries since 1935 ("a symbol of real accomplishment in the 'pictorial journalism' field"). Tourtellot took a careful second look at his new project. "I want to be sure," he said, "that Pacific gets us well along the way toward the same kind of results...
Although the grandfather of two (his son is a veteran of Bastiogne), Benny remains young at 49 and won't consider retiring until he is "at least 85." "Only eight years ago, I was up in the Yard with my hat on, and one of the policemen came up to me and asked me when I was going to graduate...
...supposedly an able man even before he begins his two years on the Charles. For one thing the Admissions Office often prefers older men, who have already had actual work experience. Statistics show that the Class of 1952 averaged between 23 to 24 years of age and included 62% veterans. Although the veteran percentages are fast dipping, the entering Class of 1953 which numbers over 620 students, still has 234 veterans...
...first visit home to Joliet, Ill. last spring, Private Hubert Edward Reeves, a 19-year-old Army veteran of Korea, found huge stacks of letters waiting for him. Ed couldn't get around very well in those days, so he spent most of his time lying on the davenport while his mother read the letters to him. When one began, "Oh, my poor dear boy, how sorry we are that you have to lie there, crippled, not able to move hand or foot . . ." Ed would laugh and say: "Throw that one away...
...Amin el Husseini (59), Mufti of Jerusalem, veteran plotter against British rule in the Middle East, and ruthless enemy of the West. Spent most of World War II in Berlin. In 1946, while awaiting trial in Paris as a war criminal, he escaped, since then has lived in Egypt as King Farouk's honored guest. Ambition: to be head of an independent Palestinian state. Methods: 1) recruiting of an Arab army from the 800,000 bitter, hopeless refugees driven from their homes by the Arab-Israeli war; 2) murder and terrorism through such groups as his own "Salvation Army...