Word: virginia
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...schools (TIME, Oct.1). In Kentucky's Sixth District, Fayette County's Republican Sheriff Wallace ("Wah Wah") Jones, 30, is making headway against Democratic Incumbent John Watts, 54-Reason: Wah Wah's reputation as a star on Kentucky's famously infamous 1948-49 basketball team.*In Virginia's hot "Fighting Ninth" District, Republican William Wampler, a Representative in 1952 at 26, defeated in 1954, is a strong challenger against Incumbent Democrat William Pat Jennings...
...year-old Incumbent Democrat Grade Pfost (pronounced, as in her 1952 campaign slogan, "Tie Your Vote to a Solid Post"). In the populous Sixth District of New Jersey, Republican Assemblywoman Florence Dwyer is a real threat to hardworking, young (36) Democratic Representative Harrison ("Pete") Williams Jr. And in West Virginia, Republican Mary Elkins, 53, wife of onetime (1919-25) Senator Davis Elkins, has an advantage over most House candidates in her race against Democratic Incumbent Harley Staggers, 49. A Washington socialite with a West Virginia address, Mrs. Elkins has only to pick up her telephone to bring into the district...
Retired General of the Army George Catlett Marshall, 75, who winters in North Carolina and summers in Virginia, was scheduled this week to receive the Woodrow Wilson Award for Distinguished Service for "meritorious service to democracy, public welfare, liberal thought, peace through justice...
After the convention, Thomson rejoined the Task Force in West Virginia where he formed a team of Ike Girls to pass out buttons, and set up a similar program in Tennessee...
Negroes. Mary Laird, daughter of West Virginia's William Laird, attended Western High with 77 Negroes, while the daughter of Texas' Lyndon Johnson went to Murch with four...