Word: darden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Edgar Finley Shannon Jr., 41, as fourth* president of the 140-year-old University of Virginia (enrollment: 4,468). He succeeds retiring Colgate W. Darden Jr., who nearly doubled the school's physical plant in twelve years. English Professor Shannon was a whiz-bang scholar and crack half-miler at Washington and Lee (1949). A Navy gunnery officer in World War II, he survived the sinking of the cruiser Quincy, won eleven Pacific Theater battle stars and the Bronze Star. He specialized in Tennyson at Harvard, earned his doctorate as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford's Merton College...
...meet again some of Falstaff's wonderful cronies from the Henry plays: the red-nosed Bardolph (Edward Asner); the swaggering Pistol (Richard Easton); Nym (Severn Darden), a "fellow frights English out of his wits"; and the aged Justice Shallow (Will Geer...
KATHERINE DARDEN LINDSAY Norfolk...
...panel with Fairless: University of Virginia's President Colgate W. Darden Jr., onetime governor of Virginia; United Mine Workers' President John L. Lewis; New York Herald Tribune's Chairman Whitelaw Reid; Bank of America's Chairman Jesse W. Tapp; Procter & Gamble Co.'s Chairman Richard R. Deupree; American Machine & Foundry Co.'s Vice Chairman Walter Bedell Smith, Ike's wartime chief of staff...
Distinguished Virginians who had given previous impressive testimonials in favor of the Gray plan began hedging. Said former Governor Colgate W. Darden, president of the University of Virginia and recent U.S. delegate to the U.N. "It would be catastrophic if schools were closed in Virginia for either race...