Word: richmond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Egypt's Tutankhamen collected walking sticks; Hermann Wilhelm Göring collects stag antlers. You can never tell what a collector is going to collect or why. A woman in Richmond avidly collects toy elephants- for the excellent reason that her name is Mrs. L. E. Fant. The ferocious Ferrante, King of Naples, was fond of collecting his political enemies, whom he had executed, stuffed and mounted, and kept tastefully arrayed in a special room in his palace...
Tall, scholarly, bespectacled Virginius Dabney, 43, lives like a typical upper-class Southerner in a white frame house in Richmond, Va., with his pretty, vivacious wife "Doug," their three children and a maid of all work named Cora. Last summer, eyeing Cora enviously, a Richmond lady told V Dabney's wife, "If V would stop talking so much we might have some cooks in our kitchens...
...Dabney's talk has long plagued conservative Virginians. As editor of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, he has tilted his pen at almost every Southern household god. He has offended the Solid South by urging its return to the two-party system. He has outraged the Baptist South by criticizing prohibition and fundamentalism. He incensed the cheap-labor South by leading a campaign which resulted in the shortening of the Virginia work week for women from 60 to 48 hours...
...Again. Last week, as Virginians hotly argued over the State Supreme Court's invalidation of their soldier ballot act, cool Virginius Dabney celebrated the conclusion of his tenth year in command of the Richmond Times-Dispatch editorial page by harping gently on a familiar string. Since the poll tax is the nub of the soldier-vote question, why not-he suggested-use the projected constitutional convention to repeal the poll tax? Virginia's Bourbons, who pride themselves on the fact that the purpose of the poll tax is and always has been to limit the vote, shook their...
Intellectual Integrity. Grave, intelligent, industrious Editor Dabney is well liked, personally, among Richmond's banker-lawyer-merchant aristocracy. But as an editor they call him everything from a "starry-eyed idealist" to a "nigger lover." Dabney himself says: "I'd like to think that I get by with my views in circles which don't agree with me because I am credited with intellectual integrity, but that might be stretching a point...