Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ohio's pudgy, popular Mike Di Salle, ex-Mayor of Toledo and sometime price-control boss of the Truman Administration, was not popular enough, lost out to Republican C. (for nothing) William O'Neill, 48, a thoroughly experienced little ( 5 ft. 5 in.) Army veteran who served six consecutive terms in the state legislature, three terms as attorney general, if In Democratic-inclined (but pro-Ike) Minnesota, Governor Orville Freeman, 38, an ex-marine with a reputation for being a homey family man (toasted marshmallows in the fireplace) and the administrator of a trouble-free office, knocked...
...around their shoulders, and out of almost every pocket and above every inch of belt protruded hand grenades. Their striking resemblance to the classic revolutionaries of the Russian Revolution-which had occurred decades before most of them had been born-was not altogether accidental. Piped one 13-year-old veteran: "All us kids were trained in the party...
Icing on the Cake. One correspondent, the New York Times's Pulitzer Prizewinning Homer Bigart, had a hand in each of the week's big stories. A veteran reporter of battle in Korea and Palestine when he worked for the Herald Tribune, Bigart had been rushed from New York to Vienna to work on the Hungarian revolution. He was filing from Hungary when the Times cabled him to get to Israel. Three days later, Bigart's byline appeared over a story from Tel Aviv. The Times's shift of Bigart was only icing on the cake...
...split with France and Britain) was roundly denounced by the Times's TV Critic Jack Gould as "stupid, selfish and irresponsible-an absolute mockery of the industry's obligation to serve the public interest." Where were the Big Three chains on this historic occasion? Displaying Veteran Cashier Bert Parks and his moneybags, putting Wyatt Earp through his heroic paces and inviting the nation to Name That Tune. (Only one TV station in the U.S. carried the U.N.-Manhattan's local WPIX...
...CRIMSON editors will observe Veteran's Day by spending the holiday weekend at Princeton. Others, whose old-school loyalty transcends the raucous revellings of Tigertown, will display their patriotism in the Brother's Field stands as Andover faces Exeter, at Andover. Those Crimeds who plan to indulge in neither of these glorious pursuits most certainly will not put out a Monday CRIMSON...