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After her first Monday's hunt, she was invited to cook steaks over the living-room fire at the home of her neighbor. Paul Fout, who sells hunters and rides amateur races. Other guests included Nelson ("Monk") Noland of Warrenton, who owns the Fauquier Laundry; James (Jim) Wiley of Middleburg, who breeds and raises thoroughbreds at Benton Farm near Middleburg; and Mrs. Magalen Crane of The Plains, who hunts with Orange County...
Self-Starter. In Fauquier County, Va., Irving Hanback published a legal notice in the Fauquier Democrat: "I will not be responsible for any more charge accounts made by me or my wife...
Marine Milestone. As the son of a prosperous physician in Norfolk, Va., Shepherd had few boyhood dreams of the military life. The family maintained a stable and so did many of their friends, who had farms in fashionably horsy Fauquier County. Lem just rode-and rode. He was sent to Virginia Military Institute because 1) he did not seem to have an aptitude for law (in which case he would automatically have been sent to the University of Virginia) and 2) V.M.I., in his family's eyes, was much better than West Point. Young Lem was a reluctant student...
...sowing his wild oats) and youthfully resolved to do better the next year. But-unyouthfully-he kept his resolve, studied 15 hours a day, and had for his boon companions a great lawyer (George Wythe), a philosopher and mathematician (Dr. William Small), and the witty, gambling Governor Francis Fauquier...
...restaurants and banking, earnest, book-&-horse-loving Paul Mellon, 33-year-old only son of the late Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon, entered famed St. John's College at Annapolis, Md., a freshman. Weekending with wife and daughter on his nearby 400-acre farm in foxy Fauquier County, Va., Freshman Mellon on weekdays will begin to mull the 100 classics which St. John's considers all that is necessary for a college education...