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After a ten-minute hospital visit with George Bernard Shaw, who is still mending, Virginia-born Lady Astor decided that his other friends were being too friendly, should pray for him but leave him alone. After all, said she: "His wife left him to me and I promised I'd always look after...
...year-old Peekskill (N.Y.) Military Academy, Head Chef James Hankins is almost as much a tradition as the oak at the corner of the parade ground which once served as a gallows, for a Revolutionary War spy. White-capped James, a Virginia-born Negro who has been known to generations of Peekskill cadets, has a simple explanation for his steady popularity. "Good cooking is the main thing with boys...
...Stinks!" The boss of the Times's vast local, national and foreign news-gathering and news-editing machine is Managing Editor Edwin Leland James, 59. Jaunty "Jimmy" James was a star reporter himself during World War I and in postwar Paris. A 35-year veteran of the Times, Virginia-born James still carries a cane and affects what Alexander Woollcott once admiringly called a manner of "extreme truculence, tinged with contempt." Occasionally, in a break from Times tradition, he bursts from his private office off the southwest corner of the city room, waving his cigar and copy and shouting...
Bloody Ground. The eldest son of a Scottish immigrant, Virginia-born Charles Taylor wanted to be an electrical engineer but, unable to afford college, switched to insurance "because I could work with figures." He rose to the vice presidency of Richmond's South Atlantic Life Insurance Co., went to Metropolitan as a Lincoln protege in 1932. "I thought I would be able to retire early," he said last week...
Built-in Drugstore. Virginia-born Dr. Still was a lanky (6 ft. 4 in.), bearded frontiersman who studied the art of healing with his father, a medical missionary among the Shawnee Indians. In 1864, Still lost three children in an epidemic of spinal meningitis. The shock crystallized his dissatisfaction with current medical methods. After ten years of horse-and-saddlebag practice in Missouri, Still proclaimed his faith...