Word: richmond
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...took a while, but school officials in Richmond, Va., finally got fed up with teacher absenteeism last week. In studying records for the 1973-74 school year, they found that an average of 40 of the city's 2,000 teachers called in sick each day in the middle of the week; 47 on Fridays and Mondays, and 55 on Mondays after paydays. "There are abuses of the sick-leave policy," charged school board member William Edwards. His proposed solution: Starting next fall two school nurses would make house calls on teachers who are "habitually absent...
Died. Clint ("Scrap Iron") Courtney, 48, pugnacious American League catcher of the 1950s and early 1960s; of an apparent heart attack; in Rochester, while on the road with the minor-league Richmond Braves, which he had managed since 1973. For more than a decade, Courtney played with six clubs, compiling a record of near-flawless fielding and clutch hitting. A relentless belligerence earned him his nickname and triggered some of baseball's most violent brouhahas, notably a game-stopping 1953 free-for-all at Busch Stadium that began when Courtney, then playing for the old St. Louis Browns, spiked...
...revisionist look at a nation's beginnings. Two recent books became bestsellers by taking just such a view, each portraying the revered Thomas Jefferson and George Washington in a new and unflattering light. Last week Virginius Dabney, a proud Virginian, historian and retired editor of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, came to the defense of the founding fathers in an outspoken Charter Day address at Virginia's venerable College of William and Mary. He sharply assailed Fawn Brodie, author of Thomas Jefferson, An Intimate History, and Gore Vidal, who wrote the historical novel Burr, for pretending to sound scholarship...
According to Dabney, the report that Jefferson had fathered the children was spread in a newspaper article in 1802 by one James T. Callender, whom Dabney described as "a vicious unscrupulous drunkard" who was angry at President Jefferson for refusing to appoint him postmaster at Richmond. An Ohio newspaper revived this charge in 1873, citing what Dabney termed the "testimony of two aged blacks." Historian Malone called the testimony a contrived bit of "abolitionist propaganda...
...Lewis H. Richmond...