Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...worldly matters during 1921; at that point he was about to graduate from the Riley School of Chiropractic in Washington, D.C., and to go forth seeking his first sacroiliac. Consequently, when a fraternity brother named Bert offered to wise him up, he listened appreciatively. "You ought to move to Virginia," said Bert. "They don't pay any federal taxes over there. You only have to pay 'em if you live in the District or work for the Government...
...Virginia, the pro-Taft party machine was mildly buffeted, winning only two of four delegates-at-large; the other two were uncommitted. Together with delegates chosen earlier at district conventions, Taft now has 11, Ike 1, and 9 are uncommitted. Two remain to be, selected...
...dark-eyed Alba Carmen Martinelli. Alba, one of six children of an immigrant Italian engineer, could speak Italian and French when she quit teaching school in Plymouth, Mass, to join the Army. She learned four more languages-Japanese, Chinese, Korean and Tibetan-studied at Stanford and the University of Virginia, and ended up as a major and an adviser to the Korean government...
...Richmond Academy of Medicine voted to delete the word "white" from the membership provisions of the Medical Society of Virginia. The poll was part of a five-year effort to open the Medical Society to Virginia's 146 Negro doctors (who are not eligible for membership in the American Medical Association as long as they are barred from the state society) and will probably influence other local medical groups among the 45 which must also take part in the decision...
...stage (1936) and screen (1938) farce, Brother Rat. There are some strictly unmilitary goings-on at Southern Military Institute. Against Institute regulations, Cadet Eddie Bracken is secretly married to Phyllis Kirk, who is about to become a mother; Cadet Dick Wesson does not know that Betty Short (Virginia Gibson) is really Betty Long, daughter of the new commandant; Cadet Gordon MacRae sings such songs as Spring Has Sprung, and spikes an unpleasant chemistry instructor's hair tonic with green and blue dyes. A lot of gay, enthusiastic young people labor strenuously to make this an enjoyable military musical...