Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Roland Boisvin, aged 53, a mechanic, left his home in the Rue de 1'Exposition after an early lunch. A World War I veteran, he was going to join comrades of the Association des Anciens Combattants who were to lay their traditional Armistice Day wreath on the tomb of the unknown soldier, under the Arc de Triomphe...
...were only 66 contestants left, and the Gálvez boys had won five of the first six legs. They had earned 58,000 pesos ($11,931) and fountain pens, radios, razors, beer, wine, shoes and hats, put up by local merchants and automobile clubs. Only one outsider, a veteran driver named Juan Fangio, managed to muscle in on their monopoly - and paid dearly for it. In a road duel with Oscar, Fangio's car overturned. Gálvez raced on, not stopping to help. (Fangio cracked up on the next leg, killing his mechanic.) One Buenos Aires paper...
Three Little Words. Right up to the early hours of Wednesday, Colonel Bertie McCormick's Chicago Tribune stubbornly carried the banner headline DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN. Below it, the Trib's veteran Washington bureau chief, Arthur Sears Henning, wrote placidly that "Dewey and Warren won a sweeping victory in the presidential election yesterday ... by an overwhelming majority of electoral votes." When Harry Truman got a copy, he chuckled: "That's one for the books...
Died. Carl Thomas Anderson, 83, veteran cartoonist, who worked at it for 40-odd years and finally clicked with "Henry," an egg-bald moppet; of a heart ailment; in Madison...
Died. Dr. Herbert Spencer Dickey, 72, veteran South American explorer and ethnologist, who located the source of the Orinoco in Brazil and discovered the Cuiapo-Pihibi tribe in Colombia; of a heart ailment; in Huigra, Ecuador...