Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...against making their fraternities open to all. Instead of taking in everyone who wants to join, Williams fraternities will go on just as before, leaving the usual unwanted minority to the non-fraternal Garfield Club. ¶Gift of the week: 50 Edgar Allan Poe items to the University of Virginia Library, from Manhattan Steamship Executive Clifton Waller Barrett (ex-'20). Among the treasures of Alumnus Poe, who left the university in 1826 because of a quarrel with his foster father: first editions of all his books, such manuscripts as a letter to Washington Irving, one of eleven existing copies...
...Radio Theater (Mon. 9 p.m., CBS). Captain Horatio Hornblower, with Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo...
...gentleman pictured by TIME [Dec. 31] as Maurice Hutcheson, son and successor to the president of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, is actually Martin Ashton Hutchinson, Richmond lawyer and leading opponent of Virginia's Byrd Machine...
...Hardy Committee (House), an important brother-in-arms of the Johnson Committee, has vowed to find out just how the armed services spend the $4.8 billion appropriated for military construction in the last session. Virginia's Porter Hardy Jr., the chairman, has led his committee on a 10,000-mile inspection of U.S. bases abroad, and the committee will soon make its first report...
Died. P. R. Crump, 104, Alabama's last veteran of the War Between the States; in Lincoln, Ala. Enlisting in the loth Alabama Regiment in 1863, he saw action in the Virginia campaign, witnessed General Lee's surrender...