Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...allegedly dirty tactics used against Tiger tallback Dick Kazmaier will be discussed by the heads of the two schools next week. Presidents Harold W. Dodds of Princeton and John S. Dickey of Dartmouth plan to discuss the matter when they attend a meeting of the Rockefeller Foundation in Williamsburg, Virginia...
...Virginia's Representative Howard Smith was sourest of all. "I came to Strasbourg to hear how European unity can be achieved," he said. "I have heard nothing except how it cannot be done." Moreover, commented Smith, "at the end of a journey through different European countries, you end up with all sorts of money and you can't even buy a cigar. There are too many passports, too many languages...
Matthew Warren's own education was not much like the sort he will preside over at St. Paul's. The son of a small-town banker in West Virginia, he went to the local high school and West Virginia University, and worked during the summer in a coal mine. By the time he graduated from Virginia Theological Seminary, he had decided that he wanted to be both teacher and minister in one. "When I left Virginia," says he, "I had a suitcase full of books on the teaching of religion and how it was learned." What he learned...
First link in the chain was Harry Phillips, boss of Steubenville, Ohio's Ohio Valley Tool & Die Co. He bought a 74,780-lb. load of sheet steel from Weirton Steel's West Virginia mill at a price of $5.20 to $5.90 per hundredweight. After the steel was delivered, Phillips obligingly passed it on, at $7.50, to his brother Matthew in New Cumberland, W. Va., who promptly sold it for $9 to Isadore Forman, a Pittsburgh steel broker and "friend of the family...
...film trots out Warner's full stable of stars-Doris Day, Ruth Roman, Gordon MacRae, Virginia Mayo, Gene Nelson, James Cagney, Gary Cooper, Phil Harris, Jane Wyman, Frank Lovejoy et al. But the show's best number is a hilarious skit, "How to Bake a Pousse-Café Cake," performed by the nightclub team of Noonan & Marshall...