Word: va
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Elected to the other offices in the class were Christiane Gaugier of Lynchburg, Va., and Cabot Hall as vice-president; Cynthia L. Heath of West Acton, Mass., and Briggs Hall as secretary; and Frances M. Lane of Wakefield, Mass., and Moors Hall as treasurer...
...three-game southern tour, which opens at Ft., Lee, Va., April 4, will cost about $800 and, for a time, lack of necessary funds led to fears that the team would have to travel by private cars if the trip was to be made...
...abhors bureaucracy and high taxes, is an unlikely man to be running a big bureau to collect high taxes. But he believes that he can serve his principles by running an efficient bureau. Until he had reached middle age, even after he became an eminent C.P.A. in Richmond, Va., Andrews wanted to be a surgeon. Now that he is taking the fat (and quite a chunk of the lean) out of 60 million taxpayers' incomes, he feels that he has attained his goal in a different way. Says he: "This is deep surgery...
...seesaw battle in which first one, then the other, was temporarily ahead. Old Dragnet shows, which are rerun as Badge 714 on 126 television stations, pull more viewers (their ARE ratings run from a low of 8 in San Diego to a high of 54.6 in Norfolk, Va.) than many a first-run show, and Dragnet is still a radio attraction on Tuesday night...
...sacred moment. The bereaved family and other mourners were gathered one day last week around a gravesite in National Memorial Park cemetery, near Falls Church, Va. across the Potomac from Washington. Suddenly, as the rabbi bowed his head in prayer, a raucous blast of hillbilly music disrupted the burial ceremony. As the casket was lowered into the earth, it was accompanied by another chorus of mooing mountain music. Afterward, when 20 shocked and weeping mourners protested, Robert F. Marlowe, proprietor of National Memorial Park, was sorry but not surprised. The hillbilly music was just another episode in a running battle...