Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Commentary on the Apostles' Creed, attributed to St. Jerome, just a year after Caxton printed his first book in 1477. By the time William (later Archbishop) Laud took over the chancellorship of Oxford in 1629, it was printing such titles as Captain John Smith's Map of Virginia, Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy and Bacon's Advancement of Learning...
...until the films come back from the drugstore, the exasperating but so frequently met guy who'll "tell you about my vacation when the prints are developed." This sort of thing first hit me hard a few years ago while comfortably moseying over the Skyline Drive in Virginia . . . There were the usual fenced-off views . . . and each time as we obediently halted to look, we met the same happy couple, simple tourists like ourselves, but with movie camera attached. Roaring into the parking spot, they slammed to a halt, leaped out, and whirrilling like some great electronic brain, focused...
Beyond the gaudy city limits the desert closes in, and beyond the funereal mountains in the distance lie the ghosts of boom towns past-Virginia City, Goldfield, Bullfrog and the others. Now & then the dice dance nervously and the windows jitter from the effects of a pre-dawn atomic blast at the AEC's test center 70 miles away. But there is no uneasiness, no sense of doom in Las Vegas even when mushroom clouds are rising beyond the horizon. Says a native Vegan: "It just couldn't happen. This is just the beginning...
...upsets of the day saw undefeated West Virginia defeated by South Carolina 20-14, Georgia Tech beaten 13-6 by Alabama, and Princeton, aiming for its seventh straight Big Three (Yale-Harvard-Princeton) title, overturned in the last 23 seconds by Yale...
...Born. To Virginia Mayo, 30, wide-eyed blonde cinemactress (Devil's Canyon), and Cinemactor Michael O'Shea, 47 (Fixed Bayonets): their first child (his third), a daughter. Name: Mary Catherine. Weight...