Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Squatting hugely across the Potomac from Washington, it is a defiant enclave of non-segregation in segregated Virginia: Negro & white personnel use the same rest rooms and eat in the same dining rooms. Its teeming workers communicate with each other through 2,100 intercoms, 15 miles of pneumatic tubes, and the world's largest private branch telephone exchange. The Pentagon switchboard, Liberty 5-6700, plugs in 40,000 telephones and is growing at the rate of 200 phones a week. Every military man working in Washington (inside the Pentagon and out) is on the exchange. The Defense phone bill...
...From a Virginia teacher: "Teaching I love, but I do despise being made into a clerk devoted to changing record cards as fast as children are allowed to change courses 'because they wanted...
Divorced. Stanley Raymond ("Bucky") Harris, 54, onetime boy wonder of baseball, now manager of the Washington Senators, whom he steered to their first and only World Series championship in 1924; by Elizabeth Sutherland Harris, fiftyish, daughter of West Virginia's late Senator Howard Sutherland and sister of Lieut. General. Richard K. Sutherland (ret.), MacArthur's World War II chief of staff; after 24 years of marriage, three children; in Titusville...
...ground rule for the campus feud which ever since has flared and faded and re-flared between odd-and even-numbered classes. In the struggle for possession of her comely 300 pounds, Sabrina wound up in some odd spots: hidden away in the depths of a West Virginia coal mine, in the basement of a sausage factory, a bank vault, various wine cellars and wells. One resourceful student once claimed her on a forged express bill, sent her off to Europe on a luxury liner...
Starlight Theater (Thurs. 8 p.m., CBS). Three Hours Between Planes, with Virginia Gilmore, John Forsythe...