Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...takeoff, it could have been the ghost of the old Flying Tiger himself, General Claire L Chennault, who died last year. There was good reason for the startling resemblance. The craggy-faced general's craggy-faced son, Air Force Major Claire P. Chennault, 38, is 17-year veteran of the service, has two brothers, Colonel John and Master...
Sixty miles west of Albany, an American Airlines DC-6, carrying 45 passengers from Boston to Syracuse, heard Albany Tower trying unsuccessfully to renew contact with Stultz. American's Captain Walter Moran, 46, a cool, methodical veteran pilot (14,000 hrs.), called the tower, offered the routine courtesy of relaying messages. From Albany Tower came the news...
...good way to hold down prizes was to restrict the points rolled up by any fixed winner. One indignant Twenty One veteran, greying Mrs. Rose Leibbrand, executive director of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, explained how it was done. Just before showtime Producer Freedman fed her the answers, and a warning: "Just remember not to bid over seven or eight -or else...
What was intensely irritating about the show was its phony air of spontaneity, with every delighted squeal ("Darling, I haven't seen you in ages'') and every "ad-lib"' joke carefully put down beforehand by veteran Radio-TV Writer Goodman Ace and a staff of three. Typical of the show's calculated coyness was the time Tallulah Bankhead (whose parody of herself is becoming increasingly pathetic) started to tell a joke about some Texans in Paris, only to be cut off by a commercial. Writer-Producer Ace promises that on successive shows a guest will...
...Crimson mentor Art Valpey's debut neared in 1948, the veteran Columbia squad, coached by Lou Little and paced by quarterback Gene Rossides and halfback Lou Kusserow, was a solid favorite. The Lions rolled up 26 first downs, a record for the school, and 480 yards gained, but this was not enough. Harvard scored four of the first six times it had the ball, on a 60-yard run, a 16-yard pass after a running play had covered 54 yards, an 18-yard rush after a backfield fumble, and a 36-yard touchdown throw. The score at the half...