Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bright boy at Princeton, the University of Virginia Law School or Washington & Lee was lanky Frank Joseph Hague Jr. After eight years of dawdling, he never did get a degree. In 1936 he managed to get admitted to the New Jersey bar. Last fortnight, events in the politically throttled State of New Jersey conspired to place Frank Hague Jr., 34, on that state's highest bench (Errors & Appeals) as a lay member at $9,000 a year. The events: 1) loaded with mortgages on properties from which high local taxes had driven business, a big Jersey City bank failed...
MURDER TO HOUNDS-Edward Acheson-Harcourt, Brace ($2). Murder in a neurotic fox-hunting Virginia family, combining an innocuous love story with the most engaging Englishman in recent crime fiction...
Leading the parade currently at the University is Ferdinand, the bovine rugged individualist. Not far behind are young Peter Holden and Virginia Weidler, as the precocious off spring of besotted John Barrymore "'60." Trailing some-what in the rear is John Garfield, star of the feature, "They Made Me a Criminal...
...write, will not take so long to read. Its breeziness is astounding, in view of the hot and heavy research the author did for it (32 huge collections of national, state, private records and letters, files of 26 periodicals, 183 biographies, histories, travel books, reference books). Its setting is Virginia from 1754 to 1806, easily the most fact-packed era in U. S. history. Miss Page, who once wanted to be a history professor, gets all the facts in-Indian trouble, tax trouble, Patrick Henry's rebel-rousing, the Declaration, Trenton, Saratoga, Lafayette off Rhode Island, the Constitution...
After its Cambridge opening, "Fair Enough" will tour the Eastern Sea-board, playing in Hartford, Boston, Washington, Philadelphia, New York, and Hot Springs, Virginia...