Word: va
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Charles Keck, 75, onetime assistant to Sculptor Augustus St. Gaudens, and heir to his heroic style; of a heart ailment; in Carmel, N.Y. Among his best-known statues: Father Duffy, a Times Square fixture; Lewis & Clark, in Charlottesville, Va.; Huey Long, in Baton Rouge, La.; Andrew Jackson, in Kansas City, commissioned by Jackson County's Presiding Judge Harry S. Truman...
Major Track H--Richard G. Barwise, Melrose, Mass.; Ronald S. Berman, Brooklyn, N.Y.; David D. Cairns, Wareham, Mass.; Charles A. Durakis, Cambridge, Mass.; Harold W. Geick, Mattapan, Mass.; David P. Gregory, Charlottesville, Va.; Edward E. Grutzner, Beloit, Wis.; Jerry Kanger, Cincinnati, Ohio; Thomas J. McGrath, Medford Mass.; Robert C. Mello, Rutland, Vt.; John R. Packard, Lexington, Mass.; Robert S. Twitchell, LongBeach, Calif.; Richard W. Weiskopf, New Rochella, N.Y.; N.Allen Wilson, Jr., Gallup N.Mex.; Robert Pfeiffer, Manager, Brooklyn...
...Paris, over the hum of street traffic, a grinning gendarme yelled to a friend: "MacArthur s'en va" (MacArthur is leaving). "With all his merits," said a complacent Dutch housewife, "he was a nuisance." A veteran European diplomat snapped: "An abscess has been removed." Nodded an Italian official: "Bureaucratically, it was the correct thing to do." Milan's Corriere della Sera voiced the underlying sentiment of all: "Europe's victory against Asia in the competition for 'most important place' in general U.S. strategy." Wrote the Vatican's Osservatore Romano: "A decisive act, proclaiming...
Guri Lie, blue-eyed, 22-year-old blonde daughter of the U.N.'s Secretary General Trygve Lie, was chosen queen of the 24th annual Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival in Winchester, Va. The queen's first official duty: to bake a passable apple...
...During the Civil War, federal troops confiscated the Robert E. Lee family mansion at Arlington, Va. When heirs sued to recover it, the U.S. Supreme Court in 1882 returned the mansion to the Lees. But it ruled that the U.S. could make a claim to the property because the family had named individual Army officers as defendants, instead of the Federal Government itself. The U.S. never pressed its claim, paid the Lees $150,000 for the mansion, now a museum in Arlington National Cemetery...