Word: edenton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dramatic finale an identical GCA landing of a Marine night fighter in Korea. This was not a coincidence, for the play had been written by Captain Hill, who was an actor (Walk East on Beacon) in civilian life. Hill also got leave from his Marine base at Edenton. N.C., to play the part of a newspaper correspondent (the only non-Marine role in the 20-man cast) in his own real-life drama, which happened last fall...
...eight months, 15 Corcoran staff members had scoured the U.S., made expeditions to Canada, Mexico and Europe to round up paintings, prints and Americana. In Paris they uncovered a 1775 mezzotint of A Society of Patriotic Ladies at Edenton, N.C. emptying their tea caddies in protest against George III's unwelcome taxes. From Canada's National Gallery came Benjamin West's enormous, detailed...