Word: va
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wind, bitter cold and the smothering snowfall put a dozen big cities and scores of smaller ones almost completely out of operation. In Pittsburgh and Cleveland, newspapers and department stores shut up shop, steel plants and hundreds of other industrial works closed down; in Akron, Youngstown and Morgantown, W. Va., thousands of automobiles, trucks, cabs, buses and police cars were stalled inextricably. National Guardsmen patrolled Cleveland to prevent looting and used Sherman tanks to tow stalled trucks and cars from the drifts...
Minor Sports H to David D. Calrus '52, Wareham; Clarke Coggeshall '52, New York City; David P. Gregory '52, Charlottesville, Va.; Paul R. Judy '53, Muncls, Ind.; Alan H. Master '52, Brooklyn, N. Y.; John H. Pankey '51, Phillipsburg, Mont.; Richard M. White '51, Denver, Colo.; and Norman V. Teem '52, Springfield, Mo. Undergraduate Manager. Also a Major H in minor Colors to Richard M. White '51, Denve, Cole, for winning three varsity letters in cross country...
...bleakest moments in the Korean fighting last September, the Defense Department took over the 48,000-ton United States, standing one-third finished at Newport News, Va. and announced that the ship (biggest passenger vessel ever built in the U.S.) would be converted into a carrier for troops. Last week, without giving any reason, Defense Secretary George Marshall returned the ship to its owner, the United States Lines, told the line to go ahead and finish its $70 million dreamboat as a luxury liner...
Thanks for the Memory. In Martinsburg, W. Va., Harland and Bessie Greenfield were divorced after 35 years of marriage, 17 children...
Richmond, Va...