Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...resigned his Air Force lieutenant-colonelcy and his post as air attache at the U.S. Embassy in Chile to run for office in a traditionally Republican district of western Pennsylvania. With little money or organization, but with labor's help in ringing doorbells, curly-haired Bob Coffey, a veteran of 97 fighter combat flights in Europe, strafed five-term Congressman Harve Tibbott's isolationist record. Coffey is one of eleven new Democratic Congressmen from Pennsylvania ; President Truman had campaigned in all but one of their districts...
JAMES NOLAND, 28, is a small but energetic World War II veteran of Bloomington, Ind. He rallied coal miners and other labor support against five-termer Gerald Landis, who voted for the Taft-Hartley law and who was in line, if elected, to become chairman of the Labor Committee. The Democratic gain in Indiana: five seats...
Pert little Soprano Camilla Williams, a City Center veteran (who paints her face to sing Madame Butterfly and La Bohéme) was a natural for Aïda. Amonasro was a newcomer. But by the time the curtain slid down last week on Aïda, 6 ft. Harlem Baritone Lawrence Winters, 32, had his first big-time opera audience, if not all the critics, cheering, too. His voice was fine, strong and ringing on top; and what he lacked in power, polish and poise should come with time...
...disgrace after Allan refused to pay his school bills and gambling debts of reportedly $2,500. He published his first poems, joined the Army under an assumed name, served two years, and in 1830 was appointed to West Point. Much older than his fellow cadets, and a hardened veteran, he spent seven months at the Point, then engineered his own court-martial and dismissal (for trivial offenses...
...coming years the Houses will have a tougher time doing their job than they have since the war. While the Administration probably will continue to keep the student body varied and representative, the College will contain fewer and fewer war veterans. Since the non-veteran has had less contact with large numbers of his countrymen, he is loss adaptable to the purposes of the House Plan than the veteran. For this reason the Houses, which have made a respectable start in their work, must now crack down on all the big and little faults which have so far slowed...