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...last lap of a strenuous 17-nation serenade through Asia, Metropolitan Opera Soprano Eleanor Steber put into Hong Kong, allowed: "You can now call me a primitive donna!" In her travels about the Orient, West Virginia-born Singer Steber, 40, a recent divorceée, had also observed some exotic marriage customs, including the blissful servitude of Oriental wives. Said she: "I now see why American women lose their husbands. The Asians sure know how to hold on to theirs. Marriage in the United States today is a highly unsatisfactory business, and American women are to blame...
...Virginia-born and educated (Virginia Military Institute, '39), Burgess began his fast-moving career as a New York claims adjuster for the Liberty Mutual Life Insurance Co. He went into the Army in 1942 as a 2nd lieutenant, emerged three years later a colonel and secretary to the General Staff at SHAEF. After a spell in the State Department, he was assistant to T.W.A. President Jack Frye in 1946-47. When Frye quit to run General Aniline & Film, Burgess went along, later was tapped to head a study of White House organization...
Chibougamau's No. 1 promoter is Randolph Pope Mills, of Montreal, president of New Royran Copper Mines and a major stockholder in most of Chibougamau's other more promising companies. Virginia-born Randy Mills first visited the area in the 1930s, never quite forgot it during subsequent years of promoting Labrador's famed iron mines and the titanium mines at Havre St. Pierre, Que. As he sees it, the boom has just begun. Arrival of the Canadian National Railways' branch line by year's end seems certain to give the bonanza a new lift...
Within six months the reactor and more than 1,000,000 other necessary items will be installed aboard the Seawolf. Then the green-and-black sub will be taken on sea trials by her 100-man crew, skippered by young (37), Virginia-born Commander Richard B. Laning, a veteran of both carrier and submarine warfare in the Pacific. Like the Nautilus, the Seawolf should be able to speed at more than 25 knots under water, and to cruise thou sands of miles without refueling...
...years since she settled in Bangkok, Virginia-born Genevieve Caulfield* has brought to Thailand's 11,000 blind hope that they might otherwise never have known. Blind herself, she was determined to break down Thailand's traditional indifference to the handicapped, eventually founded the first school for the blind that the country has ever had. Last week, 8,700 miles away, her story was retold at a special ceremony in Philadelphia. There, as part of the city's Education Week for the Blind, Genevieve Caulfield received in absentia a small, belated, but much deserved reward: a plaque...