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...Named for his adopted State and his native State by Virginia-born Physicist Fred Allison of Alabama Polytechnic Institute...
...cultural group headed by the president of The Bronx Women's Club, the president of The Bronx Soroptimists and Borough President James J. Lyons-to give "the very first series of Standard Symphonic Concerts ever staged in The Borough of The Bronx." Handsomest Conductor Marrow is a Virginia-born batonist who was once musical director of the Provincetown Players and who, last spring, put on some chamber concerts at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel at which audiences put themselves in fine fettle by drinking and smoking while listening to music by 35 players, mostly from the New York Philharmonic...
...lobby of the White House Executive Offices in Washington, newshawks stopped chatty, Virginia-born Viscountess Astor, who had just come from a talk with the President, and asked for a "few choice words" on the abdication and marriage of the Duke of Windsor. Chatted the longtime Member of Parliament from Sutton Division, Plymouth: "They'll be very few and very choice, because I'm a politician...
...your football team," cried Virginia-born Lady Astor to University of Virginia students. "Politics is a dreary thing...
Masonite was not named for the benefit of the building trade but for the inventor of the basic processes-William Horatio Mason. A broad-shouldered, white-haired Virginia-born engineer who spent 17 of his 59 years working for the late Thomas Alva Edison, Inventor Mason went to Laurel, Miss, after the War to work out a method of removing and recovering rosin and turpentine from Southern pine lumber. He was more impressed by the waste of wood in normal sawmill operations, however, than by the possibilities of naval stores. As the price of naval stores declined after the post...