Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...VIRGINIA R. STUART...
...packing plan. Associate Justice Harold Burton, the only Republican on the court but not its senior member, was eliminated because jumping him over the others might have started a new round of bickering among the Justices. Federal Circuit Judges Orie L. Phillips of Colorado and John J. Parker of Virginia were considered too old-both will be 68 on the same day, next Nov. 20. New Jersey's Chief Justice Arthur Vanderbilt, 65, was known to be a hard driver, and might have serious trouble with the prima donnas on the high court. That left one name...
...whole English-speaking world." Anything that has any bearing "on culture or freedom," explains Editor Kristol. "or preferably both together, will be the hub of the magazine." In its first issue, Encounter prints articles, fiction and poetry by writers from six countries, including the unpublished diaries of Virginia Woolf, essays by France's Albert Camus and British-born Christopher Isherwood, poetry by C. Day Lewis and Edith Sitwell. Among future contributors of articles and fiction for the magazine: Arthur Koestler, Bertrand Russell, W. H. Auden, Aldous
...brother so mistreated him that one day, "forgetting all reason," John "beat out the Tymors braines with [my] threshing bat, for they have no flailes," and took off on the fellow's horse. Many adventures later he reached London, and almost at once embarked with the Virginia colonists for Jamestown...
...history for his Saturday-night radio talks, had taken a moment out before his discussion of "An English Benedict Arnold-George Monk" for a special announcement: "Before I begin this week's broadcast I wish to convey to my listeners the desire to obtain two statues of Virginia Revolutionary statesmen and heroes that would fit into alcoves six feet high." Behind his cryptic appeal was a plan to embellish the wall of the "Nathan Hale Court," which fronts the Tribune Building. Within the week a factory offered to make plaster statues of any historical figures the colonel cared...