Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yale leads with 23 preliminary entries, 12 of them from last year's magnificent freshman team, and 13 of them freestylers. Navy lists 17, Harvard and M.I.T. 15, and Dartmouth and Cornell 11. Rutgers submitted 10 names; Colgate nine, Amherst, Army, Bowdoin, Trinity, and Virginia eight; Brown, Columbia, Princeton, Seton Hall, Syracuse, and Williams...
Hollywood autograph dealers listed some spring bargains. Signatures of Cinemactresses Betty Grable and Virginia Mayo were in stock at 40? each, William S. Hart at 50?. Lily Rons and Buster Keaton were tagged at $2, Joe DiMaggio at $3. Charles Chaplin, Greta Garbo, the late Rudolph Valentino, John Barrymore and Director D. W. Griffith were $10 items; George Gershwin, $15; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, $30; Harry Truman...
...week's end the committee was back in Washington quizzing bookies and investigating the "billion-dollar" punchboard racket. But it proposed to come back to New York next month, interview O'Dwyer in person, and hold open hearings with a group of witnesses which might even include Virginia Hill, great & good friend of the late "Bugsy" Siegel. New Yorkers could hardly wait to find out whether the city had been suffering from deep-seated Costello-itus or just surface symptoms of itchy fingers...
Cars & Paper. Mr. Truman's own party colleagues did a little better. Virginia's Harry Flood Byrd, a man who some day hopes to hear a Lincoln-head penny holler Uncle, wanted to fry off $9.1 billion-$200 million from the Veterans Administration, $500 million out of the Defense budget, $3.5 billion out of the $7.5 billion foreign-aid program and $4.9 billion out of the domestic-civilian sectors of the Truman budget...
...Scott Fitzgerald was not the only American to part with "so many hours and so much money" in Bricktop's. From 1924 to 1939, until war drove her home to the U.S. for a while, Bricktop (real name: Ada Smith du Congé), a West Virginia-born Negro woman with a mop of rusty orange hair, played hostess to a whole generation of footloose Americans in her Montmartre nightclub...