Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Clifton Alexander Woodrum, 63, longtime (1923-45) U.S. Representative from Virginia; of a heart ailment; in Washington. Though he went along with most of the New Deal, Woodrum was a leader of the Democratic Party's conservative wing, spoke up sternly now & then against freehanded Administration spending. In 1939 Washington newsmen voted him one of the ten ablest Representatives...
...Talk of the Town" section. At 36, he is starting later than a lot of this year's first novelists, but evidently not because he has wasted time. In The Trouble of One House, his storytelling method, an indirect, impressionistic one with something of the quality of Virginia Woolf's, takes him precisely where he wants...
After a ten-minute hospital visit with George Bernard Shaw, who is still mending, Virginia-born Lady Astor decided that his other friends were being too friendly, should pray for him but leave him alone. After all, said she: "His wife left him to me and I promised I'd always look after...
...Home Again. In Amarillo, Texas, onetime Trusty Robert C. Stewart, sent back to Potter County jail from West Virginia, explained why he had failed to come back in August 1949 when a jailer sent him out to get a morning paper: "He didn't tell me what kind of paper...
Elizabeth B. Mulholland '52 of Cabot Hall and Charlottesville, Virginia, will serve as chairman of Radcliffe's Board of Hall Presidents for the academic year, it was announced yesterday...