Word: va
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Charlottesville, Va...
Boarding the gleaming white presidential yacht Williamsburg, the nation's No. 1 hired man took a leisurely overnight cruise down the Potomac to Quantico, Va., with the ship hardly moving faster than the current, which suited the poker players in the presidential quarters fine. "I could have walked down faster," groused a Secret Sendee...
Born in northern Mississippi, the eighth of "just eleven children" of ex-slave parents, Alexander Shaw started out to be a public-school teacher, but finally followed his father and an elder brother into the ministry. At one of his first assignments, in Winchester, Va., Dr. Shaw found the second-floor ceiling of his parsonage too low for him. When he solved the problem by persuading his congregation to rent him another house while leasing the parsonage quarters "to a much shorter man," newspapers in Washington and New York delightedly picked up the story and caused him "a good deal...
Died. The Rev. Brother Paul (Peter E. Scanlan), 85, onetime (1928-37) superior-general of the Roman Catholic Congregation of the Brothers of St. Francis Xavier; in Fort Monroe, Va. As superintendent of St. Mary's Industrial School in Baltimore, Brother Paul encouraged the star of the school's baseball team, a promising lefthanded pitcher named George Herman Ruth...
Fairmont: James O. Watson '00; Fort Hill Farm, R.F.D. 2, Fairmont, Va...