Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Auctions for the Ladies. The Pequot Library Association knew that the old books were the gifts of two wealthy Southport ladies, Mrs. Virginia Monroe and Mrs. Mary Wakeman. Mrs. Monroe, who donated the library, which opened in 1893, made it her hobby to collect interesting old books for its shelves. A third Southport resident in love with Americana was the Rev. William H. Holman, pastor of the town's Congregational Church. Pastor Holman made it his business to read over rare-book bibliographies and go to auctions for the ladies. His own records show that in 25 years...
...Philadelphia, Bulletin (circ. 697,718) Columnist Earl Selby, 34, also played detective. A Republican politico, William F. Meade, was mysteriously shot recently in the lobby of a small Philadelphia hotel. To Democratic District Attorney Richardson Dilworth, the case was clear-cut. Meade was shot, said he, by Virginia Carroll, who was with Meade at the time, and with whom he had been "arguing and drinking." Meade insisted the shot came from outside the hotel. But Dilworth offered as evidence a bullet-shattered pane of glass which, he said, FBI tests proved "conclusively" had been broken from the inside...
...outside. Selby checked the lobby windows, discovered each had the telltale paint smear on the outside and heavy putty on the inside. Last week he wrote that the bullet might have come from outside the hotel. After new tests Dilworth announced meekly: the tests "appear to absolve" Virginia Carroll. Said Bulletin Managing Editor Walter Lister: "Selby really believes those plays and movies about reporters confounding...
...University of Virginia, first team played, trounced the visitors 6 to 1. Only Crimson winner was John Sears, playing fourth...
...previous rounds, Lee pinned Rush of the U.S. Navy, Coursen of Springfield, Rose of Long Island, and Haney of the Baltimore Y.M.C.A. In a fourth round match, leading by a fair margin. Lee rolled over on his own shoulders in applying a cradle hold to Armand Taylor, a Norfolk, Virginia, schoolboy, and since Olympic touch-fall rules were followed in the tournament, was declared loser. Blubaugh placed first and Taylor second...