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...fond parent, he is making a place for his two sons. When John Dabney, 25, who finished Yale last month, showed interest in publishing, Murchison bought into Henry Holt, made John Dabney a director. For John Dabney and Clint Jr., 23, who graduates from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in September, Murchison also bought two insurance companies...
...Senator Alben W. Barkley, Bishop Henry St. George Tucker, Erskine Caldwell, Ed Stettinius (now the University's rector). But in 1940-41, only 122 of the state's 6,856 white high-school graduates went to the University. Complained the Richmond Times-Dispatch's Editor Virginius Dabney, '20, last week: too many University students were "young wastrels [with] large bankrolls and few serious intentions of studying." What's more, he added darkly, most of the wastrels were not even Virginians...
Double or Nothing. In Tallahassee, Fla., 98-lb. Mrs. J. W. Dabney had her fourth consecutive set of twins in just under four years...
...Robert A. Fisher, Birmingham, Michigan; Donald L. Garfield, Cambridge; Paul G. Garrity, Cambridge; Don L. Geeson, Alexandria, Virginia; Albert M. Gibson, Greenville, Michigan; Francis C. Gray, Jr., Boston; David Green, Valpariso, Michigan; William H. Guild, Hingham; Theodore R. Gullicksen, Quincy; Roscoe P. Hankin, Davidsonville, Maryland; Richard W. Homans, Canton; Dabney S. Johnson, Jacksonville, Florida...
Last week, over his regular breakfast of oatmeal covered with molasses, Editor Dabney discussed the press. The trouble with most editorial pages, he said, is that they "deal with such earth-shaking subjects as 'Be Kind to Animals Week' and the misdeeds of the Doukhobors-provided the Doukhobors are at least 1,000 miles away." On Virginius Dabney's editorial page the Doukhobors are right around the corner...