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...William Thomas Rice, 45, will move up from president of the small (109-mile) Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad to become president and chief executive of the big (5,287-mile) Atlantic Coast Line, succeeding Champion McDowell Davis, 77, who is retiring as one of the industry's senior executives after 64 years of service. A railroader ever since he won his B.S. degree at Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 1934, President Rice got his start as a $155-a-month assistant engineer on the Pennsylvania, moved up to track superintendent by 1942, when he was called to active duty...
...that there is nothing more beautiful than the Great Smokies when the rhododendron and the laurel are in bloom. They whispered in the cathedral silence of the towering rain forests of the Northwest. And they shivered a little as they summoned up the ghostly crash of battle at Chickamauga, Fredericksburg and Antietam...
...MCDOWELL Fredericksburg...
Robert E. Lee had just won a great victory at Fredericksburg when Cornelius McGillicuddy was born at East Brookfield, Mass, on Dec. 23, 1862. Soon after President Garfield was assassinated on July 2, 1881, Cornelius was beginning to be called Connie Mack, a name that fit handily into a baseball box score. Young Connie was a catcher-one of the young game's best. He was in Pittsburgh as manager of the Pirates when Coxey's Army marched on Washington in 1894; he was manager of Milwaukee in the Western League when Dewey took Manila...
...F.F.A. leaders have helped bring U.S. agriculture to the most bountiful state ever known to any civilization, and in so serving their nation they have served themselves. Examples: 1938's Star Farmer, Hunter Roy Greenlaw, found himself at 16, when his father died, running his family farm near Fredericksburg, Va.; he has built up his property from 385 acres and a few dairy cattle to nearly 800 acres and a herd of 200 Herefords. James Henry Thompson of Salem, Ore., Star Farmer in 1942, originally paid $15,000 for the property he now values at $55,000, lives...