Word: arlington
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dana Tasker, who became TIME'S Executive Editor a fortnight ago, was born 47 years ago in the writing-minded small town (pop. 6,044) of Gardiner, Me. Just around the corner, Poet Edwin Arlington Robinson had made his start toward three Pulitzer prizes. Nearby lived Novelist Laura E. Richards (Captain January). In this neighborhood, young Tasker developed a critical eye and a sensitive ear at about the same rate that he speeded up his tennis game. He also played center on the high-school football team, got stuck with a durable nickname, "Tack...
...Press Club. Later in the week he received a rousing ovation when he spoke to the Western Hemisphere foreign ministers (see HEMISPHERE). Between times he made a quick trip to the Naval Academy at Annapolis, visited Mount Vernon, laid a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery and attended another formal dinner given by Secretary of State Dean Acheson...
...During the Civil War, federal troops confiscated the Robert E. Lee family mansion at Arlington, Va. When heirs sued to recover it, the U.S. Supreme Court in 1882 returned the mansion to the Lees. But it ruled that the U.S. could make a claim to the property because the family had named individual Army officers as defendants, instead of the Federal Government itself. The U.S. never pressed its claim, paid the Lees $150,000 for the mansion, now a museum in Arlington National Cemetery...
...Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society begins its annual spring tour tonight with a concert in the Arlington Town Hall...
...Aline Louchheim recently dropped by to see what sort the visitors were. "During a five-minute period one morning," she reported, "I spoke with a member of the Chilean consulate in New York, a middle-aged couple from Colorado, two art students from Chicago, a schoolteacher from Kentucky,an Arlington housewife dressed, like her three children, in sweater, slacks and sneakers, and a man from Economic Stabilization who said he'd come 'to get some damned peace and quiet...