Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Young Ed was no determined student. In college his grades were so poor that his classmates wondered how he ever lasted out four years at the University of Virginia. Among other things he flunked a course in government. But Ed had other attributes. He was an impressively handsome, exuberantly friendly man who taught Sunday school, became president of the campus Y.M.C.A. and believed that all the world was just as well-meaning as well-meaning Ed Stettinius...
Back to Old Virginia. At 45, he became rector (a kind of chairman of the board) of the University of Virginia. He anticipated Harry Truman's Point Four program by forming the Liberia Co. to help develop the natural resources of the Negro republic. He traveled, conducted foreign-policy seminars at his estate in Virginia, wrote a book on Yalta (see BOOKS). Last spring, Big Ed's doctor ordered him to slow down...
...beyond Suzanne's horizon, in Canada, The Bronx, West Virginia and Montmartre, bustling, hopeful, confident people were ordering their lives and dreams to fit the big plane's movements. In The Bronx, motherly Mrs. Raoul Silbernagel was busily planning a welcome-home party for her husband, who had been in Europe for three weeks on business. Cesia Lowenstein had only just returned to her Manhattan apartment after divorcing her husband, Ernest, in Reno, but she too was preparing a welcome. "Ernest was always away on business," she explained. "I couldn't follow him abroad because I wanted...
Composer Modarelli had spent his spare time for months reading up on West Virginia's history and folk literature. To get more ideas he made trips up & down the Kanawha, which with its main tributaries winds on a 450-mile course through fertile farmland, timbered hills and industrial valleys...
...year and a half ago public-spirited Physician Capito put a proposition to Conductor-Composer Antonio Modarelli of the 85-piece Charleston Symphony Orchestra: Capito would pay $1,000 for the kind of composition he had in mind. Modarelli agreed. Last week, along with West Virginia Governor Okey Patteson and the biggest Charleston symphony audience in history (2,500), Capito heard the result: a six-section program piece entitled River Saga...