Word: richmond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Powell Glass, 58, eldest son of Virginia's 87-year-old dean of the U.S. Senate. Carter Glass, able associate publisher and general manager of his family's newspapers, the Lynchburg News and Daily Advance; from a heart ailment; in Richmond...
...Chapman is a man with plenty of bounce; he is also too lucky and too versatile to be kept down for long. After twelve stormy years in the major leagues as infielder, outfielder, champion base-stealer, he became manager of the Richmond Colts in the Piedmont League. There he distinguished himself by getting thrown out of baseball for a year for slugging an umpire. Last year he came back as a pitcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Last week, 14 days after being traded down the river to the hopeless Philadelphia Phillies, he became a big-league manager...
Vice Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner, commander of the U.S. Pacific Amphibious Forces, inspected the land front. Said he: Okinawa will be completely won in the "comparatively near future." Less inhibited prophets were betting on two to three weeks...
Eight to the Bar. In Richmond, Mrs. Pauline E. Conlon, a professional dancing teacher, asked the court for a divorce from her 15th husband, claiming that he beat her over the head once too often with his artificial...
...printing job, the baby Times is a good bit greyer than the good, grey mother Times. It has had its production troubles : one night the paper was held up because a motorcycle messenger, rushing the wire-photos to the printers in Richmond, Calif., was arrested for speeding - and spent part of the night in jail. There have been com- petitive squawks: the San Francisco Chronicle protested the Times's use of A.P. wirephoto for the Times's private benefit. Facsimile also has posed a leading question: what good is an expensive local A.P. franchise if other publishers with...