Word: veteran
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Like Kennedy, Herter Jr. is a Harvard man ('41) and a World War II combat veteran (Army, Purple Heart, Croix de guerre) who afterwards took to politics. In 1950 and 1952 he won election to the Massachusetts house, resigned in 1953 to be Vice President Nixon's administrative aide in Washington, later served as general counsel for Nixon's G.O.P. hair shirt, Harold E. Stassen. In 1956 Herter ran successfully for the State Executive Council...
BOSTON, Jan. 16--New York capitalized on Boston laxness for a 3-2 National Hockey League victory tonight decided by Larry Popein's late goal as the Rangers snapped on eight game winless streak. Both teams employed veteran goalies just reclaimed from the minors...
...here." The best man called dapper, cutawayed Bernie "a worn-out wolf"; and Shirl, swathed to the neck in a white jersey Murray Hamburger original (retail price: about $275), giggled nervously. "I feel like the most rank amateur that ever got before a camera," she said. A veteran of the Sid Caesar shows. Shirl performed in fact like an old pro, even shed a tear for the close-up lens. Viewers met Shirl's niece, who had come via "Northwest Orient Airlines, famous for imperial service," and the announcer just had time to remind the best man about...
Dave Hirsh, late-thirtyish mock hero of Running, is that stock figure of much modern fiction, the self-pitying sore head who believes that the world owes him a loving. Dave is a World War II veteran and the author of two minor novels. He has been AWOL from his typewriter for seven years, and Choctaw rather than English would appear to be his first language. Sample: "A person could actually kill themselves that way." On an alcoholic whim, Dave returns in 1947 to Parkman. Ill., the hick home town he had deserted 19 years earlier in flight from...
After DeGuglielmo, C.C.A. members Edward M. Crane '38 and freshman councilor Mrs. Cornelia K. Wheeler also changed their votes, giving McNamara, a 20-year veteran on the Council, the required five-vote margin...