Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...duties at the present time include running a staff of ten workers, straightening out entitlement benefits, and redirecting veteran's benefits from future tuition toward present book buying or board payment...
This picture is the story of a young war veteran whose only means of supporting his family is a large, ocean-going cabin cruiser. By renting the boat, or fishing from it, he earns a living. John Garfield plays this part, while Patricia Neal portrays his necessarily overworked wife. Saying relatively little, and then only in the short and sometimes near-obscene Hemingway phrases, Garfield gives one of his best performances. Very soon after the opening he has so well accustomed himself and his audience to the character and personality called for by the script that the picture...
...thing, her office is the only one which treats the student veteran's problems individually. This, of course, involves a great deal more paper work, but both Miss Witt and Monro think that this pays dividends...
...fact, during the summer, Miss Witt hit upon a new idea: to help the veteran mailing veterans' applications to them prior to registration. This saved last year's veteran the ordeal of standing in line at Memorial Hall to register and then parading to the New Lecture Hall and register again...
...something slips up in Miss Witt's department, everything will go wrong: the veteran will not receive his G.I. check so he cannot eat, and Harvard will not receive its tuition money. But nothing has ever slipped up in Miss Witt's department and her superior, Monro, doubts that anything ever will...