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Married. Morton Downey, 48, wealthy radio & TV tenor; and Margaret Boyce ("Peggy") Schulze Hohenlohe, 29, daughter of $85 million (copper) Heiress Margaret Thompson Schulze Biddle; both for the second time; in Hot Springs, Va...
...Here, Private ... In Danville, Va., a young man named Major General Robertson was directed to report for his Selective Service physical...
...Blocked VA hospital service for soldiers' dependents...
Most of Miss Witt's work is straightening out the complexities of the Veterans Administration. She issues a bulletin several times a year to help unjumble the VA's abstruseness. A recent complexity that must be explained to veterans is the new ruling that they cannot begin a new course after July, 1951. A veteran who is going to graduate cannot, after this date, go on to a graduate school and receive benefits from the G.I. bill...
Last week the U.S. Department of Agriculture had good news for barefoot boys and for the lumber industry. It reported that a Chinese chestnut, Castanea mollissima, is doing well in many parts of the U.S. The trees in an experimental plot near Roanoke, Va. are now 14 years old, and appear to have all the desirable qualities. Besides resisting blight, they produce good nuts and good straight trunks for timber. Best of all, they come true to seed, and are actually seeding themselves beyond the experimental plot, just like native trees. The only part of the chestnut belt where they...