Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with outsized venetian blinds manipulated like a kaleidoscope to vary the settings and change the scenery. Stagecraft, however, can only do so much: the orchestra plays, the screens shift and slide, the old scenery is miraculously whisked away within a second, and then back you are again, stranded in Virginia City with Irra Petina, Paul Valentine, and Miss Miele's lyrics...
...McComas, Chairman of the Common Cold Foundation of New York, sponsor of the program, outlined plans at a fund-raising meeting of New York bankers and industrialists, Wednesday. He told them that $425,000 of the total will be ear-marked for projects at Johns Hopkins, the Universities of Virginia and Illinois, and the University...
John D. Schubert '55 of Dunster and Harrisonburg, Virginia. (Romance Languages); Jonathan Steinberg '55 of Eliot and New York City (Economics); Bennett Simon '55 of Adams and Brooklyn (Classics); Thomas A. Troyer '55 of Adams and Omaha, Nebraska (English); Robert B. Wheaton '55 of Lowell (History); and Thomas A. Woodard '55 of Adams and South Nashville, Tennessee (Philosophy...
...state in the Oct. n issue: "Through Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia and Georgia, Southern tempers flared." How can Delaware, Maryland and West Virginia be considered part of the South? The first two were border states that fought with the Union in the Civil War. The people of West Virginia refused to secede with Virginia and formed a separate state. They joined the Union in 1863. Geographically, each of these states is as close to Pennsylvania as it is to Virginia . . . Could it be that those were "Northern tempers" that flared in Delaware, Maryland and West Virginia...
Flickering Eyelash. Virginia's three Republican Representatives, Richard Poff, William Wampler and Joel Broyhill, all have done well enough in Congress and are good campaigners. Yet any of them, or all three of them, might lose just because they are Republicans and Virginia is normally Democratic. North Carolina's G.O.P. Representative Charles Raper Jonas is in only a slightly better position. In New York's 21st District, Jacob Javits was the one Republican who could win. Now Javits is running for state attorney general, and Republican Candidate Floyd Cramer has little chance. The Republicans may drop...