Word: underwoods
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When Virgil Chapman moved up to the U.S. Senate in 1948, the man who stepped into his old seat as Congressman from Kentucky's Bluegrass sixth district was Thomas R. Underwood, 53, a husky, bushy-haired newspaper editor (the Lexington Herald) and amiable, self-effacing member of Kentucky's ruling Democratic Big Five. Last week Tom Underwood stepped up to replace Chapman once again. Nine days after Virgil Chapman's death as a result of a Washington automobile accident (TiME, March 19), Congressman Underwood was named to fill the Senate vacancy...
...politically minded editor and a mother who also played politics (she headed Kentucky's Democratic Women's Clubs), Underwood made his first try for public office when he entered the 1948 race for Congress. But he has been a figure in Kentucky politics for years: with Chapman, Governor Laurence Wetherby and Kentucky's Senior Senator Earle C. Clements, and Vice President Alben Barkley...
Died. Horace Horton Underwood, 60, Presbyterian missionary-educator in Korea, member of the famed missionary and typewriter-manufacturing family; of coronary occlusion; in Pusan, where he was working among Korean war refugees. Underwood was president (1934-41) of Chosen Christian University, which was founded by his father, a pioneer Protestant missionary in Korea. In 1949 his missionary wife was murdered by Korean Reds (TIME, March...
When Whittemore died last June, Sterling Dow '25, Hudson Professor of Archaeology, became domestic director of the Institute. Dumbarton Oaks contributed Paul A. Underwood, associate professor of Byzantine Art and Archaeology, as field director. He is now in Istanbul supervising the last stages of the uncovering of the mosaics...
...major field work at present is being done by Underwood for the Rynastine institute. He will leave Istanbul for the H. S. tomorrow...