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STAN TIGERMAN Norfolk...
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...
Convict debaters at the Norfolk State Prison Colony, long the scourge of New England orensic circles, finally dropped a close decision to Harvard last night at Norfolk...
...Crimson triumph broke a streak of 11 consecutive wins by the Norfolk inmates, which included victories over many big New England colleges and a team from Oxford University. Harvard had lost three consecutive times to the convicts before last night...
...Britain, TV sets had been selling at a brisk 1,000 a day in anticipation of next summer's coronation of Elizabeth the Queen. Last week the Duke of Norfolk, who is Earl Marshal, i.e., master of ceremonies, of the coronation arrangements, announced that radio broadcasters, newsreel cameramen and photographers would be allowed to cover the two-hour ceremony in Westminster Abbey. Then he dropped his bombshell: TV will be barred from the scene...