Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Veteran twirler Slim Curtiss in Coach Stahl's mound choice for tomorrow's till. In the first meeting of the two clubs, Curtiss stepped into the game in the second inning to relieve Art Johns and held the hard hitting Crusaders to but five hits and three runs in the remaining seven frames. Tom Healey went the full route against the Brown Bears Tuesday and will be ready for duty if Curtiss falters. Bob Fulton will behind the bat as usual...
Senior Joe Delaney, who doubles in the fall as a football tackle, will be the Holy Cross pitching starter. His battery mate will be veteran Dave Barry. Delaney and Mike Clarnick, who got credit for the victory over the Crimson in the first game, have accounted for the eight triumphs the team has scored this spring. They have been defeated four times...
...skeptical at the parade might well have wondered how "free" Spain was when they saw 10,000 Italian troops, led by the veteran General Gastone Gambara, and 5,000 of the German Condor Legion pass by.* And one look at El Caudillo's uniform would tell them that Spain was still far from "one." It was a "compromise" uniform. On his head was the red boina (beret) worn by the conservative, monarchy-loving Carlists. Under his Army campaign blouse was the blue shirt of the Falangists, or Spanish Fascists, deadly political enemies of the Carlists...
Gene Towne, 35, is a baldheaded veteran of 15 years in Hollywood, where he got his start thinking up wisecracks for titles in silent pictures. Since he shifted to writing original screenplays, which his friends told him was a "starvation business," he has starved less than any writer in Hollywood. Seven years ago he teamed up with Graham Baker, a long-faced ex-producer who once fired him. The two rented a dingy $15-a-month office formerly tenanted by a masseur, bought a Rolls-Royce from a well-known producer down on his luck, painted TOWNE-BAKER SCRIPT DELIVERY...
...genial, mustached Arthur E. La Porte, wiry veteran of many a hop across the Pacific, went the honor. When the last handshake had been exchanged before the newsreel cameras, Pan American Airways' President Juan Terry Trippe, seeing another ocean-spanning dream about to come true, turned to him: "Captain La Porte, is the flight in order...