Word: va
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sizes, each $8.95. "Watch," says the ad, "how [children] will assume the quiet dignity of those who have dedicated their lives to the Church." But Christianity's smash commercial success is a song, composed by Disk Jockey George Donald McGraw. 30, of Salem, Va., who got tired of hearing "songs about funny animals, Santa Claus and filter cigarettes" at Christmastime and decided that "everybody was kind of starved for something real sincere." The something Deejay McGraw provided and had sung in unretouched hillbilly by the eight-year-old daughter of a friend is selling platters from Albany to Atlanta...
...worst of the slack. Increasing federal, state and local outlays for needed schools, hospitals, dams and roads helped keep construction growing to a record $48.8 billion. The 1957 housing slump was turned around (1,170,000 new housing starts in 1958) with the aid of beefed-up FHA, VA and Fannie May programs. Good weather and fine crops gave farmers a 20% boost in income. Finally, the defense planners who had helped accelerate recession with an ill-timed economy wave in the summer of 1957 got back on the missile beam by mid-1958 with a $5.3 billion increase...
When told the bad news that their health was good, the neurotics angrily refused to believe it. One man went so far as to collect notarized statements from numerous friends to prove his continued pain. Another rushed off to a second VA hospital, succeeded in getting back his angina pectoris status (and Government compensation). Advanced cardiac neurotics, concluded the doctors, cannot give up their way of life. It may even be dangerous to disillusion them, and best to go on treating them as real heart patients. In fact, "their eventual incapacity equals [that from] the most serious type of heart...
Auntie Mame. Too late for Halloween and too early for New Year's Eve, but the Madwoman of Beekman Place raises hell anyway, Constance Bennett in CHICAGO, Eve Arden in SAN FRANCISCO and Sylvia Sidney in HUNTINGTON, W. VA...
Charlottesville, Va...