Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been made happier for having his picture in TIME. In June, 1947 your Medicine department published one of our Foster Parents' photographs of a little Belgian girl, Maria Michiels, who had lost an eye and suffered severe injuries when a V-2 hit her home in Antwerp. A veteran of the 13th Port, an American Army unit which operated Antwerp's port after the invasion, saw the picture in TIME and thought that he recognized the girl. He made some inquiries and established the fact that she was indeed the child saved from her burning home...
...Philadelphia candy manufacturer, has an easy recipe for cooking up a song. Several years ago he began filling notebooks with catch phrases, slang and cliches ("Cliches make the best songs; I put down every one I can find"). Last April, with three notebooks full, he went to Veteran Songwriter Al (Mairzy Doats) Hoffman, who chose Baked a Cake as the most promising title, helped Merrill whip up the words & music in a couple of hours. The lyrics asked very little of the U.S. mind. Sample...
Williams will start a veteran team which suffered the usual spring trip losses to Duke and Navy, then settled down to beat Loyola, Union, and Tufts. (Williams beat Tufts, 8 to 3, Harvard won, 13 to 7.) The Ephmen also looked surprisingly well in losing to undefeated Yale by only two goals...
...Veteran Joe Carveth, 32, was hauled into the regular lineup, and with Lindsay and Abel playing in their usual style, the Red Wings came from behind to beat Toronto in their half of the cup semifinals, four games to three. Meanwhile the New York Rangers had crushed Montreal, four games...
Died. Muriel Starr, 62, veteran Canadian-born Broadway character actress, who enjoyed her greatest success touring Australia with American hit shows (Madame X, The Thirteenth Chair) during World War I and the early '20s; of a heart attack after her first-act performance in The Velvet Glove; in Manhattan...