Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gift from trucking interests and with forging letters used to disprove other Browning attacks. But much of the political sheen had worn off Old Warhorse Browning, 64, whom Clement's forces berated for having "sold out the South" at the 1952 Democratic convention by voting to unseat the Virginia delegation. Clement, still the nation's youngest (34) governor, seemed to impress the voters with his oratorical spellbinding and the record of his first two years in office...
Married. Goodwin J. ("Goody") Knight, 57, Republican governor of California; and Mrs. Virginia Carlson, 35; both for the second time; in Los Angeles...
Dumb Disciples. For the rest, there are serious critiques of Flaubert, Peacock, Leopardi, and personal reminiscences of James Joyce, Franz Kafka. Virginia Woolf, Tolstoy and Oscar Wilde. This section is called Glimpses of Greatness, and Connolly aptly describes it as "a carillon of memories covering a recurring situation, the Maestro in all his simplicity and wisdom garrulously confronting his treacherous dumb disciple...
...California's top eligibles, Governor Goodwin J. ("Goody") Knight, 57, whose first wife, mother of his two grown daughters, died in 1952, announced that this week he will marry Mrs. Virginia Carlson, 35, whose husband, an Army Air Force bombardier, died in a 1944 raid on Rumania...
Shaking with rage, Bill Knowland barked: "Is the Senator from West Virginia questioning the patriotism of the President of the U.S.?" Neely denied that he was and added: "You are reflecting on yourself, sir ... Are you ashamed...