Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some "spontaneous" movements have already sprung up in other states. In Virginia and Arizona, Kefauver clubs are organized. In California and Oregon, steps have been taken to put his name on the primary ballot. At a Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner in Seattle last month, Northwest Democrats cheered when his handsome red-haired wife Nancy was introduced as "the first lady of Tennessee who might one day be the First Lady of Washington...
...Rome, a reporter dropped around to her night club for a chat with Bricktop (Ada Smith Du Congé), famed as a cabaret hostess among Paris' Left Bank literary set in the '20s. Asked if she remembered F. Scott Fitzgerald, the throaty West Virginia-born Negro songstress said: "Sho-nuf darling, I remember all those darlings. There was Scott, and his wife Zelda, she was nice. There was Hemingway, too, already famous. And Louis Bromfield and John Steinbeck. Steinbeck, he's my darling of all darlings, except of course Cole Porter. He's my favorite...
...with the appointment of his old friend ("I did not attend the board meeting at which Mr. Russell was elected"). But unofficially, he had to admit that he was pleased. In both size (3,810 students) and stature, the university still ranks far below such Southern campuses as Virginia and Chapel Hill. Both able and powerfully connected, Donald Russell might prove to be just the man to bring...
...free-style part of the competition, Sonya's dazzling jumps, spins and double loops earned her top honors. Tenley was second. Said third-place Virginia: "I'm on a cloud." Joining incomparable Dick Button on the men's team: angular Jimmy Grogan, 20, of Colorado Springs, a frequent runner-up to Button, and Hayes Alan Jenkins, 18, a freshman at Northwestern University...
Died. Allan M. Hirsh, 73, Virginia-born sewer-pipe manufacturer with an old claim to fame: as a college sophomore (Yale '01), he wrote Boola-Boola, the football song; in Manhattan...