Word: va
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Williamsburg, Va. he strolled the streets hatless, admiring the colonial architecture while other tourists and townspeople admired him. In New Orleans he asked his chauffeur to stop the car so he could hear the jazz throbbing out of the bistros. In Austin, Tex. even his musicians got a surprise. Their usually dapper maestro, for the first time within memory, rehearsed them in shirtsleeves...
...minister to France, he spent a day in an Italian dairy learning how to make Parmesan cheese. His design of a more efficient moldboard for a plow won a gold medal from a French agricultural society. His library at Charlottesville, Va., which was the finest private library in the U.S., was bought by the Government to restock the gutted Library of Congress, burned by the British...
McCarthy had been a hard man to pin down. By the time one of his charges fell flat, McCarthy was noisily charging something else. But the Democrats nailed him neatly on one point. In Wheeling, W. Va., radio transcripts showed that McCarthy had said there were 205 Communists in State. But McCarthy had put in the Congressional Record what he declared to be a copy of that speech, and in it he had listed the number...
Honored by the Barter Theater of Abingdon, Va.: Actress Shirley Booth, for her playing of a slattern in Broadway's Come Back, Little Sheba. The award: "one Virginia ham and a platter to eat it off of," and an acre of Virginia land...
...talking about economy and opposing the folks back home were two different things. With a new amendment directing the VA to survey the abandoned Army & Navy hospitals and use them if it could, the bill was shouted through without a record vote and sent on to the Senate. No one could tell for sure how any member had voted; back home each could talk however it suited the occasion, out of either corner of his mouth...