Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Panting and wheezing, the concierge climbed to the sixth floor of the grey building at 53 Quai d'Orsay, overlooking the same stretch of the summery Seine as the nearby French Foreign Office. A 64-year-old World War I veteran, Louis-Christophe Gaillard was a vacation substitute for the regular concierge at the Hotel du Tabac (so called because it used to house the French state tobacco monopoly). He shuffled into the main conference room, where a council meeting of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation had just ended. Gaillard moved around the green-clothed table, carefully collecting...
...Largo. A veteran recovers his self-respect fighting gangsters. Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lionel Barrymore, Claire Trevor and others do fine work in John Huston's adaptation of a Maxwell Anderson play (TIME...
...Palace's S.R.O. audience stormily approved every bit of it. Sighed Carlton Emmy, maestro of the dog act: "It was like coming back to the old homestead . . ." Veteran Pat Rooney, who started in vaudeville back in 1890, said: "When I saw that audience I got that old feeling. Sure, television will bring back vaudeville. Vaudeville's never died." But it had changed a lot. Said Gus Van: "Years ago, you used to sit for an hour in the theater and make yourself up. Now a fellow with nice soft hands comes along and does it for you." Ella...
Only about three out of every 100 cases are the result of battle wounds. But VA regulations are not too strict. Any veteran whose teeth went bad while in service is entitled to free care. If cavities or other dental troubles show up within a year after discharge (provided the veteran has served at least six months), the trouble is presumed to be "service-connected." The ex-serviceman can get free dental service for as long as he needs it on any tooth treated in his first year out of service...
...veteran with an aching molar may have to wait four months to get free care, or his dentist will have to wait four months for his pay. Typical question : If the veteran has one front tooth with a cavity that developed while he was in service, and this affected the tooth next to it, which can be filled? Answer: Only the tooth with the service-connected cavity. But if both teeth have to be pulled out, the VA will pay for a bridge for both gaps...