Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Austerity Diet. But when Mrs. Roosevelt arrived in Los Angeles one morning last week, she seemed no more disturbed than a veteran kindergarten teacher who has heard a little minor scuffling in the back of the room. She greeted both Jimmy and Helen with cries of matriarchal affection and rode off to Jimmy's Beverly Hills mansion with them as tranquilly as if she were taking both to be fitted with teeth braces and sensible shoes...
Early last week in Tokyo, General Douglas MacArthur summoned a handful of newsmen who had been with him in World War II's campaigns. Among them was LIFE Photographer-Correspondent Carl Mydans, a veteran of Japanese prison camps in China and the Philippines. Mydans' report...
...ward room, over & over again, they kept playing a recording: They'd Better Have Seven League Boots and Invisible Gabardines When They're Foolin' With the Marines . . . Wiry Captain Sam Jaskilka, 30, from Ansonia, Conn., a onetime University of Connecticut basketball star, a Marine veteran who fought through World War II's Pacific campaign, laughed nervously at the song. "I hope the enemy believes that," he said as he sipped a cup of coffee...
...such stunts, husky, 29-year-old Reporter Keasler, a war veteran who broke in on the Journal (circ. 248,791) only a year ago, has made himself the most talked-about newsman in Atlanta. As a self-made smart aleck he has not yet been shot at or even punched, but he has given Atlantans plenty of provocation...
...Australia was discovered?" Answer: "Australia"), and concentrated on outlandish penalties. But Edwards shrewdly mixes the humiliation of contestants with what he calls the "good-gesture type of act" involving "a personal rehabilitation or something along that line." One projected good gesture: the televised reunion of a wounded Korean war veteran and his mother...