Word: va
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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JAMES BLADE Arlington, Va...
...simply listed the lady lieutenant colonel's schools (Boyles Business College, Omaha, Neb., the University of Maryland Extension in Heidelberg, Germany), her record in ten years in uniform (her present post: chief of the WAC Training Center, Fort Lee, Va.) and her medals (Commendation Ribbon, Army of Occupation WAAC; American Theater and European Theater Ribbons, World War II). The present director's comment on her successor-"wholesome, energetic and efficient" -was also regular (male generals usually refer to their successors as "fearless, brilliant and dynamic"). But it was evident, nevertheless, that WAC brass is still feminine in exercising...
...movie managers played it big. In Omaha, red carpeting was stretched from curb to lobby; in Asbury Park, N. J., advertisements invited people to come in evening clothes (but very few did); in Richmond, Va., the popcorn machine was hauled out of sight for the night. Ticket prices were scaled as high as $7.20. Finally, when all was in readiness, some 60,000 customers marched into theaters in 27 cities to see a live performance of Carmen, coming from the Metropolitan Opera in Manhattan over closed-circuit television...
...Reuther went to work as an apprentice tool & diemaker in Wheeling, W. Va., his home town. Fired by the Wheeling Steel Corp. when he tried to organize a protest against Sunday work, he went to Detroit, where he rose to the skilled and highly paid job of foreman in a Ford tool & die room. Fired again in 1932, he went off on a three-year bicycle trip through Europe and parts of Asia with his brother Victor, now U.A.W. representative in Europe. The Reuthers supplemented their funds with occasional jobs, among them a one-year stint in Russia...
...trip to Richmond, Va. last spring, Edmund R. Dewing, the district attorney of Norfolk County, Mass., heard about Lady Wonder, the "Talking Horse." He drove out to Lady Wonder's stable, paid her mistress one dollar (for three questions) and was escorted into the Presence...