Word: va
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...business as a boy, delivering Postal telegrams at 1? a message in New York City. When the U.S. entered World War I he was a radio ham, tapping out Morse code on his do-it-yourself set. The National Guard quickly shipped him off to Old Point Comfort, Va. to help start a military radio school. Later, he threaded his way upward through the postwar mergers of telegraph and telephone companies. By 1951, just before he joined TIME, he was an operations and personnel executive for Western Union...
...McLean, Va. a British teacher evolved a whole new science program for the Potomac School, which is now a regular part of the curriculum. The principal of Delaware's Bridgeville Consolidated School reported that his visiting Scot was "so delightful" that even his kilt was accepted "without gibes from the males and with downright enthusiasm by the females." In Gig Harbor, Wash, a high-school student won an award in the Betty Crocker "American Homemaker of Tomorrow" contest, took her British home-economics teacher along on the winning trip to Washington, D.C., Williamsburg and Philadelphia. "It was," said...
...Lynchburg, Va...
PERSONALITY: Brown-haired, blue-eyed, meditative, Burney is married (two children), likes to read American history, plays golf in the mid-80s, enjoys swimming with his family at the pool of their apartment 'house in Alexandria, Va. An active joiner of medical organizations, he enjoys working with Boy Scout groups, helps them in health and safety work...
...flying years, was not bothered by the fact that another pilot would soon be flying his plane in altitude tests perhaps at speeds faster than his record. "I've accomplished my mission at Edwards." the world's fastest man told his parents back in Fairmont, W. Va., where he decided as a kid to become a pilot, "and you can't stand still...