Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bluebonnets. In Virginia it was Garden Week, and ancient and hedge-bordered Tidewater estates were open for inspection; bluebonnets bloomed across the sandy distances of west Texas; forsythia blossomed under budding trees from New England to the Northwest, and golden California poppies dotted the fields near Los Angeles. Highways everywhere echoed to the wham-wham-wham of people tearing along at a cunning five miles above the speed limit to stare at flowers...
...Dean Acheson wanted a man who was enough of an economist to keep abreast of French financial crises, enough of a diplomat to help Western Europe toward unity. For this job Truman picked David K. E. Bruce, chief of the Economic Cooperation Administration mission in France, a lawyer and Virginia gentleman farmer. Bruce learned economics managing Mellon interests (his first wife was Andy Mellon's only daughter, Ailsa), later took a postgraduate course as Assistant Secretary of Commerce. To succeed Bruce at EGA he picked lively, earnest Barry Bingham, 43, wartime naval officer, editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal...
...bored with ballet and convinced that it was "something dragged up from 300 years ago that didn't make any sense and wasn't going any place." She went a few places herself-a few blocks up Broadway to kick up her heels in such musicomedies as Virginia, Great Lady and Stars in Your Eyes. When Ballet Theatre started up in 1939, she tagged along to auditions with her roommate. What Choreographer Antony Tudor was doing was just the thing for Actress-Dancer. Nora Kaye: in his emotion-packed ballets she could combine the best she had learned...
...stood out plain: the church had plenty of potential ministers among its young men, but it was losing them for lack of training facilities. Last week's meeting was called by the Episcopalians' largest divinity school and one of the first in the country, 125-year-old Virginia Theological Seminary. Since the war, it has been swamped by applications for enrollment. Seven other Episcopal theological seminaries report a similar boom in applications...
...most of the aspirants for the ministry will probably end up on the layman's side of the chancel rail. Even with an ambitious building program well under way, Virginia Theological Seminary will be able to accept only 40% of this year's close-to-200 applicants. The total number of graduates from all Episcopal seminaries in 1949 will be only 190, as against an estimated 187 clergymen who will be withdrawn during the year because of death, retirement, etc. More than on any other single factor, the Alexandria conference agreed, the future of the Episcopal Church seems...