Word: virginia
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There was not much to judge by. The grooved points have showed up all over the southwest and as far east as Virginia, but Folsom Man apparently built no dwellings, and he did not leave his bones where they would be preserved for modern diggers. Chief argument for his antiquity was that his characteristic spear points are often found associated with the bones of animals, particularly a kind of now-extinct bison (Bison taylori). But not all experts were convinced by such evidence; Bison taylori, they objected, may have been around until fairly recent times...
...Medal for Labor. In the House, leaders were trying to jam through a labor law, already approved by the Senate, which would give the railroad unions the checkoff and the union shop (barred by the Railway Labor Act). Virginia's lean, conservative Howard Smith dourly protested. Smith didn't see "why we should confer the Medal of Honor on labor for pulling a railway strike when we've got a war in Korea." When Speaker Sam Rayburn persisted in trying to call up the bill, Smith demanded a roll call...
...four: North Carolina, Virginia Tech, North Carolina State and Virginia Military Institute...
...Gentle Art. Occasionally, Fred Bason worried about his writing style, once went for advice to Virginia Woolf ("a tall, thin . . . miserably sad-looking woman . . . not in any way distinguished to look at"). She replied (or so Fred thought): "You would perhaps do well to read Stern." So Fred promptly bought a work by G. B. Stern-"but for the life of me I could see nothing [in it] to teach me the gentle art." On complaining to Mrs. Woolf, ha got back a cross note: "Sterne -Sterne with an E on the end! L. Sterne! V.W." And so, continues Fred...
Into the $18,000-a-year job of press secretary for President Truman this week stepped Joseph Hudson Short Jr., 46, Virginia Military Institute graduate, veteran newsman and Baltimore Sun White House correspondent for the last five years. Mississippi-born Joe Short got to know Harry Truman well while covering his vice-presidential campaign of 1944, has been a good friend ever since...