Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this was too much for Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd, the Armed Services subcommittee's most dogged bird dog. "That is a very remarkable thing," Byrd exploded. "We are going into a war, and we permit somebody to say that that war is going to end on a certain date, and then the procurement department does not prepare for the war and the chiefs of staff are not consulted ... Is that the way the Department of Defense is run, where a vital question of war is to be determined by somebody else other than the chiefs of staff...
...date claimed to know practically nothing, except that she used to go every year to the Derby (she said Darby and spoke like a Southerner because she comes from Virginia). Everyone calls her Casey, which is a nickname, I suppose, since that's no first name for a girl...
University of Virginia Charlottesville...
Starting with Sky. Born in West Virginia, Leigh studied art for twelve years in Munich under a succession of adept nature painters named Rauff, Gsis, Loeftz and Lindenschmidt. They taught him to make a detailed charcoal sketch on canvas and paint over it, starting with the sky ("If there are no clouds, the sky may take no more than a day") and working toward the foreground, finishing each part separately. Such grandiose subjects as sunsets and stampedes, he learned, may take up to six months to finish. But for Leigh, the finished result, an almost photographic naturalism, is well worth...
Other of the comics who give New Faces color are Paul Lynch with his Rotarian's account of lion-hunting in Africa and a "friend of the producer," Virginia DeLuce, who manhandles Clary and also introduces the skits in exaggerated Runyonese...