Word: shenandoah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said no, and since Daddy is Commander in Chief of just about everything there is in the U.S. these days, Lucy Baines Johnson, 16, didn't get to see the Beatles at all. But L.BJ. did agree to allow his younger daughter to serve as queen of the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival in April. Small recompense, but Lucy-or Luci, as she now likes to spell it-was thrilled. "I've never been anything," said she, "not even a duchess...
Saving the Star. That was where young Harry came into his own. He had been bored by his lessons at Winchester's Shenandoah Valley Academy. His father had purchased a small daily newspaper, the Winchester Star, for use as a personal political vehicle. When the paper seemed about to go under, 15-year-old Harry saw a chance to quit school. He persuaded his father to let him try to save the Star. Save it he did-by scrimping on expenses and contributing a remarkable amount of journalistic ingenuity. Today, the Winchester Star and the Harrisonburg News-Record...
...crawl on his belly through a hole in the fence. Then the hole was patched. Byrd hesitantly asked if he might have his own key to the gate-something the Park Service would have granted long ago at the slightest hint. "I got 'em to put in the Shenandoah Park when I was Governor. It was the Depression then, but I got a million dollars out of Congress, and we raised another million. Ickes wouldn't let the mountain people stay in there. He made them all move out. I begged him not to do that. I said...
...LION SLEEPS TONIGHT (the Tokens; RCA Victor). A first album by the newest teen-age quartet to bleat their way to fortune. Here they kick rock 'n' roll to concentrate on folk-style tunes-Michael, Shenandoah, Jamaica Farewell. Underneath their Brooklyn twang, there are even hints of talent...
...painter of The Window Box (and 31 others in the exhibit) is John Chumley, 33, who lives in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley and never had a New York show before. He grew up around Knoxville, Tenn., where he had one major interest-football-and one minor one-drawing...