Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tower of Strength Beneath a hot Virginia sun one day last week, Defense Secretary George Catlett Marshall stepped to the front of the speakers' platform to receive a tribute it had taken him 50 years to earn. Virginia Military Institute had turned out in full regalia to do him honor as its most famous living alumnus...
There were speakers, a medal from the state of Virginia and a full-dress parade by V.M.I.'s 770 cadets, resplendent in black shakos, grey tailcoats and white ducks. Then Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch rose to dedicate the George Catlett Marshall Arch, a new sally port leading into the new quadrangle at the center of the V.M.I. post...
Gentlemen Cadets. V.M.I first opened its doors in 1839 with 23 gentlemen cadets, grew until it had 176 to march off to Richmond four days after Virginia seceded from the Union. It had grown to a new enrollment of 241 when the corps marched forth once again to the Battle of New Market in 1864. That day, ten cadets were killed and 47 wounded, and V.M.I. became the only school in the U.S. entitled to carry a battle streamer on its flag. A month later, a Union force under General David Hunter sacked and burned the school...
...audiences who sometimes complain that they cannot follow the rich accents of British movie stars could read a sprightly retort from the other side last week. Wrote the London Spectator's Film Critic Virginia Graham, in a bittersweet review of Born Yesterday: The stars' performances "leave nothing to be desired-that, at least, is the impression left by this film, an impression which it is extraordinarily clever of it to make seeing that, as it is written in Bronx, only one out of every ten words is comprehensible. I remember once being similarly impressed by a film...
...picked up his quill, penned an unusual tribute to one of them. "The Congress have seen such a necessity of an able commander in Canada, as to destine you for that most arduous service . . . We want you at N. York-we want you at Cambridge-we want you in Virginia...