Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were newsmen assigned to cover the record-making flight: the U.S. News & World Report's A. Robert Ginsburgh, 63, a retired Air Force brigadier general, and Glen A. Williams, 41; TIME-LIFE'S Washington Bureau Chief James L. McConaughy Jr., 42; the Boston Traveler's veteran aviation writer, Robert B. Sibley, 57; United Press International's foreign affairs writer Norman J. Montellier, 37; Associated Press's Daniel J. Coughlin...
Judge Lemley, Virginia-born grandson of a Confederate soldier, 74-year-old veteran of law practice in Arkansas, in effect reversed the integration orders of his North Dakota-based predecessor, Judge Ronald Davies-the orders that President Eisenhower had moved federal troops into Little Rock to enforce...
...last resolving his boyhood bafflement, Cinemogul Cecil B. (The Ten Commandments) DeMille, a veteran purveyor of history as it should have been -with color, wide screen and brigades of extras-helped out New York City on a problem of medium-high learning. Donated by DeMille: four plaques, to be placed at the foot of Cleopatra's Needle, the 3,500-year-old Egyptian obelisk in Central Park, with a translation of the monument's hieroglyphics. For the occasion, DeMille recalled his urchin days in the wilds of the big city: "As a boy, I used to look upon...
...After five years of firing baseballs just about as fast as anyone in the big leagues, "Bullet Bob" has finally figured out how to keep his shots on target. In the second game of last week's doubleheader, Turley stayed zeroed in until the Athletics' veteran reliever, Virgil Trucks, walked home the winning...
...Detroit's Charleston (W. Va.) farm club, who will be expected to twist the Tigers' tail. The Tigers responded by taking six of the next seven games, including four from the New York Yankees, ¶Not even the obstacle of a stalled motorboat could stay the veteran, power-stroking Yale crew from sweeping through the dusk on the Thames River in New London, Conn, to trounce Harvard by three lengths in the nation's longest (four miles) and oldest (107 years) boat race, and to prove again that it is the finest in the land...