Word: richmond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kent was his boyhood playmate), Vichy (where Marshal Petain sees him instantly and at length) and Berlin. Chappy has also made his headquarters in Madrid, where he used to visit former U.S. Ambassador Alexander Wilbourne Weddell, relative of Chappy's blonde U.S. wife, the former Peggy Watson of Richmond...
Chief doubting Thomas: Police Chief L. E. Jones of Richmond, where about 70 Los Angeles drunks were shipped last week for jobs in Henry J. Kaiser's shipyards. Said Chief Jones: "I don't like it. We have enough drunks of our own. I can't see why Los Angeles takes it upon itself to increase our problem...
Johnston should have been studying maps. When McClellan's Union army began to loom in the despondent winter of 1862 and Johnston decided to retreat from Manassas on Richmond, he shocked Davis by "declaring himself ignorant of the topography of the country in his rear." What shocked Johnston was to find that the secretly planned retreat was known all over Richmond. After that he drove Davis wild by keeping military secrets from...
...Lieutenant at Heart is Douglas Southall Freeman, the amazing editor of the Richmond News Leader. "Dr." Freeman to Richmond, less by virtue of his youthful Ph.D. than in recognition of his Nestorian standing in the community, he knows more about the Army of Northern Virginia than any man alive and has for years lectured on his subject at the Army War College in Washington. Now 56, Freeman adheres to a famous daily schedule that would tax the nerves of "Old Pete" Longstreet...
...whisked through the Associated Press copy and typed out three solid columns of editorials. At 8:10 he holds an editorial conference; at 8:25 he walks downstairs, across a catwalk on the second-story roof and into the broadcasting studio of WRNL. Half of Richmond is giving ear when the Doctor goes on the air at 8:30 with his morning news and homily. The station people are awed by his ability to spin out a steady, mellifluous 15-minute newscast without notes or script; they are awed still more by his occasional frank admission: "You can take...