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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...
Snow and subfreezing temperatures do little to cool the enthusiasm of the hardy horse players who jam West Virginia's Charles Town Race Course each day during the long winter: 30,000 were on hand last week. Pockets bulging with Mason jars of moonshine, Shenandoah farmers huddled over their tout sheets; Baltimore businessmen traded tips with pin-striped Washington politicians. For hundreds of other two-buck bettors from New York and Philadelphia, the day at the races had begun at 6 a.m., when they boarded special buses for a five-hour trek to the track...