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...idea tickled Texans. But they were also unhappily reminded that the Texas Navy (Honorary Commander: Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, of Fredericksburg, Texas) has no ships at the moment...
...command radio to battle reports. They were good. His tankmen were rampaging around, deep in Germany, on the loose and on the prowl, raiding and rolling on. Patton could turn off the radio and turn on one of his favorite topics of conversation: the Civil War battle of Fredericksburg. Willie, the General's white bull terrier, snuffed sleepily...
...music staff at the College of Our Lady of the Lake, she has a master's degree in composition from Chicago's American Conservatory, and has written more than 500 pieces, including fugues, passacaglias, a concerto, four other masses. Born some 30 years ago in Fredericksburg, Tex., home town of Admiral Chester Nimitz, she is an accomplished pianist and has a lightning musical memory that enables her to write down or play a complicated piece a week after hearing it. She has long been interested in the indigenous music of the Southwest, and many of her works have...
...German patrol, on the prowl in Normandy, nabbed Private Anthony Blazus Jr., of Fredericksburg, Pa. and led him toward Roncey. There his captors joined a motorized column of the Nazi 17th SS Division, preparing to escape southward. Said Blazus...
Thomas Jefferson founded his University of Virginia for men, but he believed also that women should have "a solid education." Henceforth the University will have girl liberal arts students-but the Charlottesville boys will have to travel 55 miles to Fredericksburg to fetch them to a german. The University last week annexed Fredericksburg's Mary Washington College, named for George Washington's mother, the largest women's college in the State (1,528 students). Formerly a teachers' training school, Mary Washington will specialize in the liberal arts...