Word: va
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the Opera. A fair number of Americans in Paris eventually turn up at the hospital. Schoolteacher Anne Louise McMahon of Lewisburg, W. Va. was crossing the Boulevard des Capucines one night last month, after attending the opera, when a motorcyclist roared down the street and hit her; she suffered a broken left leg. "Right away," she says, "I thought of my little card." Her friends fished it out of her pocketbook and handed it to the gendarme who sent her, d'urgence, to the American Hospital. Card or no, the police probably would have sent her there anyway...
Rain Hat. In Richmond, Va., the M. & B. Headwear Co. began sales of what it called the first nonshrinkable waterproof hat for men. Nonstitched, the cloth of the hat is laminated together and covered with a thin, transparent coat of plastic. Price...
...from her Texas-tycoon husband (Louis Calhern); a laconic Long Island couple (Paul Douglas and Eve Arden) who communicate with each other only in monosyllables; Mrs. Mississippi (Marilyn Monroe), a bathing-beauty contest winner, and her baby-tending husband (David Wayne); a G.I. (Eddie Bracken) from Richmond, Va. who frantically tries to remarry his expectant wife (Mitzi Gaynor) just as he is about to be shipped overseas...
Died. Mrs. Mildred Strode Vandegrift, 66, wife of General Alexander Archer Vandegrift, 65, hero of Guadalcanal, onetime (1944-47) commandant of the Marine Corps; after long illness; in Lynchburg, Va...
...husband's painting career began, she confided, at Fort Myer, Va. (when he was on duty at the nearby Pentagon after the war). He just called for "a rag, thumb tacks and a board." The rag turned out to be a dish cloth on which he painted an oil portrait of Mamie. "I just don't know the word for it," she said...