Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stepped up from vice president to president of Gillette Co., maker of razors, Paper-Mate pens and Toni permanent-wave kits (1955 net earnings: a record $28 million, up 9% from 1954). He succeeds Joseph P. Spang Jr., who becomes board chairman. Gilbert went to the University of Virginia, got a law degree from Harvard in 1931 and joined a Boston law firm, where he stayed until Gillette hired him as treasurer in 1948. He was made a vice president...
Botsford hit a two-run homer the next day, Thursday, to pace the attack which defeated Virginia, 6 to 3. Ned Felton started and McGinnis finished up on the hill for the Crimson...
...baseball squad will leave over the weekend for their opening game with the Quantico Marines at Quantico, Virginia. From there they will visit Richmond University, Hampden-Sydney, Virginia, Catholic University, and Delaware. Coach Norman Shepard said that the team has had almost no outside practice so he would consider the trip a success if only the starting lineup for the season is determined by the end of the trip...
Captain Art Siler will lead the track team to Quantico, Virginia for a meet sponsored by the U.S. Marines. Over forty colleges will enter teams, and several leading amateur groups will also participate in the meet, a preliminary Olympic try out. The Crimson will enter the meet primarily as practice for the coming season...
...first-class citizenship to U.S. Negroes than anything since the Emancipation Proclamation. It is true that no public secondary schools have as yet been desegregated in eight of the Southern states with the largest percentage of Negro citizens, i.e., Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. It is also true that at least four of these states-Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and South Carolina-seem certain to go on defying desegregation orders for years to come. But before the Supreme Court decision, racial segregation of public schools was legally required in a total of 17 states...