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...like a quarterback throwing a forward pass and catching it himself. As Virginia's wartime governor, urbane Colgate Whitehead Darden Jr. had often told the people what was wrong with their state university and had persuaded the General Assembly to spend $4,500,000 to fix it. Last week ex-Governor Darden took on the presidency of his languishing alma mater...
...Governor, Darden had proposed tougher University admission standards; a curb on the "expensive, restricted and ingrown" fraternity houses; new, million-dollar dormitories and a cafeteria, to put a Charlottesville education within reach of many more "rank & file" Virginians. Last week President-Elect Darden held a three-hour peace talk with student leaders, to convince them that he was not proposing a fate worse than death. He assured them that he would not let Virginia's traditions get lost in his bigger & better University...
...Colgate Darden's own student days at Virginia were interrupted by World War I. In 1916-17 he was an ambulance driver with the French Army at Verdun and the Argonne. When the U.S. entered the war, Darden switched to the Navy and then the Marines, injured his back in a plane crash. He returned to Charlottesville to finish up, took a law degree at Columbia, went on to Oxford. Now 50, for 22 years he was a faithful member of the Byrd political machine, was elected four times to Congress, once to the governorship. Although Darden doesn...
...Heaviest (but not fattest) person on record was Miles Darden. When he died in 1857 in Henderson County, Tenn., he weighed a trifle over 1,000 lb. But Darden was 7½ ft. tall. If he had been of the same proportions as rotund Mrs. Pontico, he would have weighed an even...
Virginians were vexed over "outsiders sticking their noses into Virginia's affairs." But some were also deeply disturbed over Virginia justice. Finerty was joined before the Circuit Court of Appeals by Edmund Preston, Richmond attorney, member of the State's leading law firm. Governor Colgate W. Darden Jr. granted stay after stay. The Richmond Times-Dispatch declared: "Add the fact that we are in a war for survival in which we are depending heavily for victory on the colored races, and the significance of the Waller case becomes clearer...