Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...class, fixes Cornetist Beiderbecke's halo more firmly in place. Vol. I (Bix and His Gang) finds him at his freest, contains his definitive version of Jazz Me Blues; Vol. II (Bix and Tram) contains his most famous solos (Singin' the Blues, I'm Cornin' Virginia) and happy teamwork with Saxophonist Frank Trumbauer; Vol. Ill (Whiteman Days) has appealing solos by Bix and Bing Crosby, buried in a large dose of "symphonic" dross...
...three-award winner will be Kenneth J. Ryan of Savana, III. His prizes are all for research. Hugh R. Dudley, Jr. '48 of Huntington, West Virginia, will receive the Harvard Alumni Association Award...
...last week's West Virginia primary, the Oregon situation was reversed. With the local Republican machine solidly behind Taft, Eisenhower's name was not entered. Taft defeated Harold Stassen, his only opponent in the popularity contest, by a four-to-one margin. Taft was equally successful in squelching an effort to steal two or three of the state's 16 Republican delegates for Eisenhower. He won all but one. On the Democratic side, there was no contest; the 20 delegates elected will go to Chicago uninstructed...
...young man, he had twice been elected to Congress from West Virginia. From 1913 to 1918 he was Woodrow Wilson's solicitor general, went to London (1918-21) as U.S. ambassador, came home to be nominated (after 103 ballots) as the Democratic candidate for President, and was roundly beaten by Cal Coolidge. Senior partner of a first-line Manhattan law firm, he had argued 136 cases before the Supreme Court. He looked thoroughly at home in his black sack coat and striped trousers, as he sat calmly in the lawyers' sector waiting for the proceedings to begin...
...skipper, Commodore Harry V. Manning, held her to a fairly leisurely pace until the liner was some 100 miles off the Virginia Capes. Then he turned up her engines to something like full speed...