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...airplane did not go away, and neither did Mitchell. Topping a series of crashes, the Navy airship, the Shenandoah, was ripped apart in an Ohio line squall. Thirteen officers and men were killed. Two days later Mitchell dropped a journalistic blockbuster. "These accidents," he announced to the press, "are the result of the incompetency, the criminal negligence and the almost treasonable administration of our national defense by the Navy and War Departments...
...winding driveway, through grounds bursting with redbud and dogwood, to the great white Shenandoah Valley mansion of Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd, drove some distinguished visitors, among them Treasury Secretary George Humphrey, Democratic Senators Lyndon Johnson and Walter George, and Republican Senator Eugene Millikin. They met in the second-floor room that Byrd uses as his home office. From the meeting came a decision to strive for a compromise that might save President Eisenhower's liberalized foreign-trade bill-still under discussion in Harry Byrd's Senate Finance Committee-from being ruined by crippling amendments...
Died. Margaret Seligman Lewisohn, 59, educational leader; in an automobile crash (half an hour after Adlai Stevenson, whom she had given a lift, had left the car); near Shenandoah, N.Y. A trustee of Vassar and one of the founders of Bennington College, wealthy Margaret Lewisohn, was chairman of the board of trustees of the Public Education Association...
Hardly had the Shenandoah dirigible crashed than '29 unbuttoned its collar in Hemenyway gym to register for its first term. Most found the special freshman welcoming day a big help in getting their bearings. As they wrote weeks later in their first assignment for English A, in a theme entitled "My Reactions--Favorable and Unfavorable--to My Reception at Harvard" that extra day without the upperclassman gave the class its first feeling of unity...
Sweating in the hot sunshine, Linder pointed toward heaven and let the Shenandoah of cliches roll. "Four score and nine years ago, the Men in Grey ceased to resist oppression on the battlefield . . . Four score and nine times Old Father Time has completed his yearly cycle since the last bugle call was sounded and the last rebel yell was heard fighting under the Stars and Bars . . . Four score and nine times the shrinking violets have timidly raised their heads from their winter hiding place to gladden the hearts of mankind. The rosebuds have sprung into new life and flaunted their...