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...hunters at their favorite sport, the corruption of London's gin-swilling slums, all these are just a sampling of the subjects contained in the pictorial encyclopedia of Paul Mellon's private English painting collection. So vast has it grown that just to hang its choicest items, Richmond's Virginia Museum of Fine Arts cleared out all its picture galleries 31 years ago. But for all of Virginia's traditional ties to old England, Loyal Yale Grad Mellon ('29) showed 300 of the paintings at Yale last year and last week decided that the collection...
...most of Virginia's voters live in cities and suburbs--before 1960 most voters were rural. 65 per cent of the Old Dominion's population lives in the urban corridor which slashes diagonally across the state from the suburbs of Washington, D.C., on south through Fredericksburg to Richmond, and then down into the densely-populated complex around the Navy installations at Norfolk. At the same time that the Byrd Organization has trouble in this area, its traditional margins in Southside have been severely cut by the two-year old Virginia Conservative Party, a fringe group which seems to feel that...
...Republicans? Yes, Virginia, there is a Republican Party. The G.O.P. picked up two House seats, one in the Ninth District (Appalachia), and one in the Eighth, Howard W. Smith's old district, and probably could have taken another in the Third District (Richmond and surrounding counties) had they run a candidate against the incumbent Democrat this fall. Nevertheless the Republicans face serious problems. They have not been able to build up an effective statewide organizations; local offices have largely been left to the Democratic Party in return for the late Sen. Harry Byrd's "golden silence"--his refusal to support...
...small, but effective coalition had three factions. There was the so-called Richmond Establishment in the state capital. Here the bankers and the editorial pages of the Richmond newspapers lent powerful support to the Byrds. The Machine, in return for keeping corporate taxes and public welfare spending very low, received staunch backing from business and industry. The Organization was also able to pile up phenomenal margins in rural Southside Virginia by maintaining a gentlemanly but firm stance against integration. Southside, along the North Carolina border, is a lot like Alabama's Black belt...
During the mid-1950s, the power of the Byrd Machine and the forces and policies it represented, was suddenly jeopardized. In 1954, a large group of liberal-to-moderate delegates were elected to the General Assembly in Richmond. These "Young Turks," as they were called, vociferously questioned the whole range of conservative ideas imbedded in Virginia's political life. This in itself was an almost unprecedented situation for the Old Dominion, but when federal courts ordered school integration, the conflict was brought to a head...