Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sixty Years in Indiana. After the first census in 1790, the center was the upper Chesapeake Bay. It has moved west ever since, never straying more than 30 miles north or south of the 39th parallel. Between 1850 and 1860 it hopped 80.6 miles from western Virginia to Ohio and by 1890 it had jumped clear into Indiana, where it stayed for six decades. This year, when the mathematicians finished calculations on the 1950 census, it was obvious that the center had made the biggest westward hop since 1890, and, because of the industrial rush to Texas, the greatest southerly...
Last week the show hit the road in Philadelphia, with a cast that includes onetime New York City Opera Stars Brenda Lewis (as Rosalinda) and Virginia MacWatters (Adele). On opening night, a fuse blew out in the orchestra pit and delayed the show for 15 minutes. But near-capacity audiences had a rollicking good time all week. Said one surprised young lady: "I like it even better than South Pacific." Their 30-week tour will take the Met auxiliaries into more than 30 cities for some 200 performances. Weekly cost of the show: $30,000. Estimated profit? Says Bing...
...Down in Darkness, by William Styron. Decay and aimlessness in country-club Virginia; a first novel by a 26-year-old Southerner who writes well if not refreshingly (TIME, Sept...
...Lubell, the only man who ever made All-American three years in a row, will be on the Holy Cross side of the stands this afternoon. Lubell achieved this strange distinction while playing for Virginia and is remembered for his great run in the Virginia-Alabama game. The run covered 132 yards, and occurred when Lubell, starting from his own 33, was stunned at scrimmage, ran to his own goal line before he realized he was going the wrong way and then turned around and threaded his way among the entire Alabama team for the score...
...Down in Darkness, by William Styron. Decay and aimlessness in country-club Virginia; a first novel by a 26-year-old Southerner who writes well if not refreshingly (TIME, Sept...