Word: va
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Back Row. In 1954, Alben Barkley came out of retirement and went back to Washington as the junior Senator from Kentucky. But he was an aging man: his sight was failing; he was tired. Last week he went to Lexington, Va., to keynote the traditional mock Democratic National Convention at Washington & Lee University. Before a capacity crowd in the university gymnasium, he again stood up to give a scathing, ultra-partisan Democratic speech that, largely because of the humor in it, would not offend even the most partisan Republicans. Looking back through history, he credited all the good...
Died. Alben William Barkley, 78, Vice President of the U.S. under Harry Truman, junior Senator from Kentucky; of a heart attack; in Lexington, Va. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
Born. To Jill Faulkner Summers, 22, only child of Nobel Prizewinning Novelist William Faulkner, and Paul Dilwyn Summers Jr., 27, University of Virginia law student: their first child, a son; in Charlottesville. Va. Name: Paul Dilwyn III. Weight...
Died. Irene Langhorne Gibson, 83, the "Original Gibson Girl," widow of Artist Charles Dana Gibson, second of the "five beautiful Langhorne sisters of Virginia" (including Britain's Lady Astor); in Greenwood. Va. As pictured by her husband, with her sweetly haughty expression, hourglass figure and stylish pompadour, she became the gaslight era's symbol of genteel femininity, influenced the dress, manners and flirtations of a generation of U.S. girls...
MILLION-DOLLAR MOTELS near Pittsburgh and Williamsburg, Va. have proved so successful for Knott Hotels Corp. that the chain will build (at a total cost of more than $3,000,000) and operate three more near Washington, Pittsburgh and Groton, Conn. Washington motel, first to be built, will have 125 air-conditioned rooms with private balconies, a restaurant, an Olympic-sized swimming pool with cabanas...