Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vacationing in Pinehurst, N.C., Britain's roving Lady Astor was entertained at the local country club by the city's foremost winter residents, General of the Army George Catlett Marshall and his wife Katherine. Ordinarily one of America's most caustic critics, Virginia-born Nancy Astor was on her best behavior, kept her temper during her frequent rounds of golf (handicap: 20), purred just like any sweet old (65) lady. Sample: "I've never known so many nice people as you've got here...
...Unwise & Untimely." On the Finance Committee, the key Democrats. Virginia's hardheaded Harry Byrd and Georgia's hardheaded Walter George, decided that the Humphrey road showed far more promise of getting to the right destination. Byrd and George joined the committee's Republicans to vote down the $20 tax cut, 9 to 6. Said Walter George: "A tax cut would be unwise and untimely...
Died. William C. de Mille. 76. veteran playwright (Strongheart, The Warrens of Virginia) and motion picture director (Craig's Wife, Passion Flower), onetime (1941-53) head of the University of Southern California's drama department, brother of Producer-Director Cecil B. De-Mille and father of Choreographer Agnes de Mille; in Playa del Rey. Calif...
...winner meets defending N.C.A.A. champion LaSalle Friday night in Philadelphia. Last night LaSalle won an easy first-round victory over West Virginia, 96 to 61, in New York...
...Know How It Tastes." While his men executed the maneuvers in the legislature, George Craig was in the thick of the fight behind the scenes. Craig knows how to fight, and loves a good one. The descendant of Scotch-Irishmen who came to Indiana from Virginia about 1815, he grew up in the tough, coal-mining atmosphere of Brazil (rhymes with Hazel). His father, Bernard Craig, 75, is still practicing law there. A Jeffersonian Democrat (the last Democratic presidential candidate he voted for: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in 1932), Bernard Craig was a fierce foe of the Ku Klux Klan...