Word: virginia-born
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
That road leads to generational division and intolerance on a never-ending scale. I don't know about you, but as a Virginia-born American veteran whose ancestors defended their families, their land and their states, I personally don't want this argument to go on and on. I don't want my kids to look forever through the murky prism of "one color knows best...
DIED. Freeman Gosden, 83, the Virginia-born white who played the straight and solid Amos to the late Charles Correll's gullible Andy in the Negro-dialect comedy radio show that was a national craze for most of its 31 -year run; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. Gosden also did the voices of the bamboozling George "Kingfish" Stevens and the shuffling Lightnin' until the show succumbed to poor ratings...
...Jamieson's successor as chair man and chief executive officer will be Exxon's current president, Clifton Garvin, 53, a forceful if taciturn Virginia-born engineer who rose through the corporate ranks via the company's burgeoning chemical operations. The new president: Howard C. Kauffmann, 52, a senior vice president (one of five), who has been running Exxon's operations in Europe and Latin America for most of the past ten years. One Exxon executive, who knows them both, describes them as "cast in the same mold-hard businessmen, not extraverted, used to tough decisions." More...
Died. William Ludlow Chenery, 90, editor, then publisher of the late Collier's weekly from 1925 to 1950; in Monterey, Calif. A learned, liberal Virginia-born newspaperman, Chenery led the ailing Collier's to a notable comeback by taking vigorous editorial positions (the magazine was an early champion of Repeal) and recruiting big-name writers-H.G. Wells, Sinclair Lewis, Ring Lardner, Zane Grey-at top dollar; in 1939 he signed F.D.R. to a $75,000-a-year contract for regular contributions...
...from a dynamic pastor who has the membership at heart." Proctor, however, has a few involvements of his own. He plans to keep his professorship at Rutgers University (philosophy of education, Afro-American and urban education), drawing only a part-time salary from Abyssinian. At the same time the Virginia-born educator promises to preach three Sundays a month at the church and shore up its sagging administration. Abyssinian, the oldest major black Baptist church in the North, could use some reinvigoration. It was no secret to anyone that Adam Powell preferred sunning in the Bahamas to sweating...