Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity team, though he then weighed only 160 Ibs. As a Navy seaman in 1945, he went directly to the Secretary of the Navy to be assigned to the destroyer named for his late brother Joe, a Navy flyer killed in operations in 1944. Out of the University of Virginia Law School (class of '51), Bob spent a year with the Justice Department, resigned to manage brother Jack's successful senatorial campaign, then landed a job with the Senate Subcommittee. He worked as calmly as he could under Joe McCarthy's Chief Counsel Roy Cohn, who taunted...
This protection of the individual was an outgrowth of the inquisitions of ecclesiastical courts in England in the sixteenth century. It was a protest against tyranny, and Virginia made the Fifth part of the price of ratifying the Constitution because history has demonstrated that the need for the protection is abiding. And history has also demonstrated that, however this section of the amendment may be misused, its necessity to a free society remains paramount...
...last two games, slated against Virginia and Gettysburg, were washed...
...varsity tennis team enjoyed one of its most successful southern trips in recent years, as it swept all seven of its matches from the University of North Carolina, Duke, Navy, the Byrd Park Tennis Association, and the Country Club of Virginia...
Charles Christian Wertenbaker was a member of one of Virginia's grand old families, an able journalist (on and off from 1931 to 1948 with FORTUNE, LIFE and TIME), an occasional novelist (To My Father, The Death of Kings), a big man with a strong appetite for good living. This is his widow's story from the time he learned, in the fall of 1954, that he had cancer of the lower bowel until, less than four months later, he committed suicide, at 53, by slashing his wrists with a razor handed to him by his wife...