Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...That the standards of government, the levels of public morality and the ambitions of the young will be permanently elevated by the sworn testimony of such ineffable characters as Virginia Hill ... is a proposition which professional believers in good clean fun will advance. Miss Hill was no more relevant in the Kefauver investigation than Morgan's midget at the stock market investigation...
...Spokane, some 3,500 curious and bargain-hungry citizens turned out to watch the Government auction off the house and effects of mobdom's tax delinquent Virginia Hill. The house was knocked down to a local salesman for $30,237, just $237 more than the Government's minimum selling price. Some 1,800 odds & ends brought a total of $14,992, including Virginia's own little .25-caliber pistol with a clip and a couple of shells for $36; a ruby-studded wedding ring intended for her marriage to the late Bugsy Siegel, which went...
...Istanbul, blonde ex-Cinemactress Virginia (The Invisible Woman) Bruce and her wealthy Turkish husband Ali Ipar announced that they were very much in love after five years of marriage-and that they were going to get a divorce. Reason: Turkish law forbids commissioning an officer with a foreign wife. Ali, due for a term of military service, wants a commission. They plan to remarry when the law is changed or Ali's tour of duty ends...
...this may be argued, however, Johnson himself has elements of greatness and is possibly the only truthful man in this Administration. Born at Roanoke, or it might have been Lynchburg, he rose rapidly when the town was besieged by Ben Butler and went to West Virginia, which did not then exist as a state. Having saved the Union, he then proceeded, as Assistant Secretary of War in 1939, to save it again. So that his selection as our second Secretary of Defense was hailed as enthusiastically as mournfully it would be farewelled...
Divorced. By the Honorable Francis David Langhorne Astor, 39, editor of London's sedate Observer, second son of Virginia-born Lady Astor: Melanie Hausser Astor, after six years of marriage, one daughter; in London...