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Williamsburg, capital of colonial Virginia, was one of the gayest musical spots in unmusical 18th-Century America. Musical centre of this musical spot was the colonial governor's palace. In its spacious salons, between sessions of the Virginia Legislature, such distinguished amateurs as Thomas Jefferson gathered to make sweet music on viols, flutes, harpsichords. Now Williamsburg, restored by the Rockefellers, looks much as it did 200 years ago. But for Colonial Williamsburg Inc., looks were not enough. It wanted to restore the sweet sounds...
George Washington in his last, pastoral years at Mount Vernon, Thomas Jefferson at Monticello, founded a U. S. tradition: that public men, having held the highest offices, continued to serve afterward as Elder Statesmen. Presumably but some times not actually remote from politics, they were supposed to possess a degree and kind of wisdom not given to their partisan juniors...
...premonitions were confirmed. As soon as she had given birth to her daughter, she visited a local photographer who made a portrait of mother and child. This turned out so well that an enlargement of it entitled Modern Madonna was hung in the Missouri State Building at Jefferson City...
Navy has been beaten by Princeton, 61 to 14, but Washington and Jefferson lost to the sailors, 61 to 44. Of the two scores the former shows most convincingly just what is to be expected from the Annapolis affair. Navy's only first came in the dive won by Gibson with 123.9 points. He defeated Rusty Greenhood last year with 113 points, and opened his season this year with a 123-point performance against W. and J. But in view of Greenhood's 124 points against the Providence Boys Club Wednesday, the contest ought to be about as close...
Other debates have been arranged in which the Harvard team will meet John Marshall, William and Mary, Florida, Mt. Holyoke, and Washington and Jefferson. In addition to the regular series of radio debates, there will be two national broadcasts in the latter part of March. In one program the Crimson will be pitted against Columbia over the Mutual broadcasting system; in the other they will oppose tiny William Jewell College over...