Word: va
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dawn one day in 1943, two policemen chased a stolen car through Petersburg, Va. and forced it into a ditch. In the wreck they found two soldiers, both AWOL. One cop stayed behind guarding them; the other, R. B. Hatchell, set off in pursuit of the driver, who had run away. Half an hour later two shots rang out; Hatchell's body was found nearby...
Editorial Writer Jack Kilpatrick of the Richmond (Va.) News Leader also began an investigation. Kilpatrick, a hard-dig ging reporter (who has since succeeded Historian Douglas Southall Freeman as editor of the News Leader - TIME, July 1 6, 1951), first got interested in the case as a reporter when Rogers made an un successful appeal to a higher court. Con vinced of his innocence, Kilpatrick ran a two-column editorial called "The Curious Case of Silas Rogers." Wrote he: "The conviction grows, and grows [that] Silas Rogers is imprisoned for life - for a crime he never committed." "Kilpo" Kilpatrick quizzed...
...first trip away from Hollywood in more than ten years, oldtime Cinemactress Marion Davies arrived in Richmond, Va. with her husband Horace Brown to meet his family. One of the points of interest was the First Precinct station, former headquarters for Brown when he pounded a beat on the Richmond force back in the early 1930's. Dressed in diamonds and a brand new, $15,000 mink coat (her old sable wrap, said Brown, was just too heavy "for my little pixie to carry around"), Marion went on a tourof the lockup. At the sight of some 30 smalltime...
...head the commission a year ago, Harry Truman got a topflight surgeon and medical administrator (in the VA), Chicago's Paul Budd Magnuson, who says: "I'm a Republican myself and always have been." The President let Magnuson pick the rest of the commission-14 representatives of medicine, dentistry, nursing, farmers, labor and consumers. And Magnuson now swears that nobody in the Administration "exerted the slightest bit of pressure on the commission...
...Huntington, W. Va., Lawrence H. Rogers, vice president of station WSAZ and WSAZ-TV, banned the song / Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus because "it violates a provision against songs in which children describe parents' misconduct, and implies an insult to Santa Claus and the sacred occasion of Christmas...