Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From V.M.I. The morale of the new Nationalist army seems to be good, and officers credit the improvement to the work of trim, greying General Sun Li-jen, 49, who learned the elementary facts about soldiering at the U.S.'s Virginia Military Institute. Sun served ably against the Japanese at Shanghai and later in Burma, where he commanded the snappy, U.S.-trained 38th Division. As one of the Nationalists' top commanders in Manchuria after V-J day, he beat the Communists consistently. In 1947, Chinese clique politics led to his transfer to Formosa and the Fengshan training camp...
...committee heads will be Jane Johnson '52 and Connaught O'Connel '52, publicity; Jacquelyn Seevak '52, lighting; Virginia Carroll '51, candidates; and Elizabeth Brown '53, staging. Miss O'Neil will double as costuming chairman, assisted by Betty Hunt...
...Orchestra plans for the spring include a concert in Cambridge under its conductor Malcolm H. Holmes '28, and readings of various familiar symphonic works it still also renew its prewar tradition of a spring vacation four, visiting several women's colleges in Virginia...
...prime delight of the show is Pearl Bailey. As a runaway slave named Virginia in Virginia and Connecticut in Connecticut, she manages to be now all charm, now all perkiness, now all rhythm. She gives Arms and the Girl its one sock number when she sings There Must Be Something Better Than Love...
...disintegration. Then old Mr. Richardson died ingloriously in a hotel room from a surfeit of food, drink and women. He left just enough money for beautiful Mrs. Richardson to keep the fine old house and her social prestige, and to send young Percy and Byron to the University of Virginia. While Jim piled up a fortune in oil, handsome Percy Richardson went in for bourbon, Negro women, homosexuals and, finally, suicide. Byron was content to be a small-town lawyer and live in a cottage. Mrs. Richardson died of cancer, unreconciled to the fact that her daughter had deserted...