Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...display this week at Richmond's Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the eggs are the work of an intense, spade-bearded jeweler named Peter Carl Fabergé (1846-1920). Starting out in his father's small shop in St. Petersburg as a young apprentice, Fabergé became court jeweler to Alexander III and Nicholas II, and the most sought after goldsmith of his time. Russia's Easter eggs are his proudest creation. Fabergé turned out his first as a surprise for Alexander III's Czarina. At a glance, it seemed to be a plain chicken...
...Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs: Walter S. (for Spencer) Robertson, 59, first-family Virginia investment banker and sometime China hand. A Democrat (who liked Ike in '52), Robertson went to work for the Government during World War II, served as chief of the Lend-Lease mission to Australia, then as embassy counselor and chargé d'affaires in China's wartime capital, Chungking. In 1946 he headed the truce enforcement commission set up by the Marshall mission. After Marshall's makeshift appeasement failed, Robertson quit the foreign service, went back to banking with...
...tennis team will seek sunnier climes over spring vacation on its ten-day jaunt into the Southland. Coach Jack Barnaby and 12 of his players will leave the College today to give them an open day for travel before beginning their six-match tour at the Country Club of Virginia in Richmond on Sunday. On Monday, the team opens a schedule of four matches, playing North Carolina and Davison each twice. The final engagement will be with Navy on April 4, the first Eastern Intercollegiate Tennis League contest for either school...
...continue competing on an amateur level so as to be eligible for the 1956 Olympics. If this fails, he can fall back on the myriad of coaching jobs offered him in the last few years. These include posts at Fountain Valley School in Colorado Springs, the University of Virginia, and a tentative overture from Penn State...
...Collins, that in 1952 the Eighth Army fired an average of 62,616 rounds of mortar and artillery ammunition a day-nearly ten times the enemy's average daily rate of fire. But such Pentagon efforts to persuade the Senators to look at the silver lining collapsed when Virginia's Harry Byrd put a question to Army Secretary Robert Ten Broeck Stevens...