Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even though he needed help in the seventh inning of a game with the Chicago Cubs, Milwaukee Southpaw Warren Spahn got credit for a 9-3 victory, became the first major league pitcher to win 20 games this season. A veteran of 13 years with the Braves, Spahn moves into the record book alongside Cy Young, Christy Mathewson, Walter Johnson, Grover Alexander and Lefty Grove, all great pitchers who won 20 games or more for eight or more seasons...
...city editor of the Chronicle, Shrike, slips through West's pages sticking the men about him on thorns; he is a complete sadist, whose quiet, corrosive words prick at Miss Lonelyhearts constantly. Pat O'Brien, tested veteran of countless barrel-bottom films, shouts. Playwright Howard Teichmann has promoted the novel's Shrike, with name changed to Spain, to rank with Miss Lonelyhearts himself, boring more holes in the plot's tight belt, as if to accommodate O'Brien's bulk...
...place the usual bills, letters, circulars, and postcards in the little cubbyholes. But sharp-eyed members of these Houses will note that for the first time in 22 years, the boxes will opened by a new man, and the hand under the uniform will be different. For veteran letter carrier Andy Corr is retiring after bringing Bellboys and Bunnies news from home for over 20 years...
...That Glitters. In a flurry of new appointments and policy changes, the Herald Tribune announced that its editorial-page section, to be increased to two full pages daily and Sunday, will be headed by William J. Miller, 45, veteran of the Cleveland Press and TIME, onetime Nieman fellow at Harvard, and for the past three years an editorial writer for LIFE. To a new job called "News Development Editor," with the task of applying newsmagazine techniques to daily reporting, went Arthur Twining Hadley II, Yale '49, onetime (1950-56) staffer on Newsweek. Other additions: Society Gossipist Charles Ventura, longtime...
...Army veteran who put in a little time just before the Normandy invasion patching up the teeth of General Dwight Eisenhower, Lieut. Colonel Taylor had been turning in better scores than Lieut. Robbins all through the tournament. He seemed to have the hilly course all figured out. But in the final round, it was the course that was his roughest opponent. A week of wearing golf on the hills of the Country Club turned out to be too much for a man who does most of his weekday walking around a dentist's chair. Slowly, Bud faltered. His drives...