Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...VIRGINIA W. MOLL...
...Virginia's famed Mrs. Chipsian Lucy Madeira Wing, 83, resigned after 51 years as headmistress of suburban Washington's genteel Madeira School. Schoolmarm Madeira, a doughty New Dealer, kept her girls, including daughters of such notable capital names as Morgenthau, Hopkins and Saltonstall, in green jumper uniforms, out of lipstick, with chaperoned escorts, and under a stiff liberal-arts regimen. Her favorite mottoes, watchwords to two generations of time-tried Madeira maidens: "Function in disaster!" and "Finish in style...
...local daily as well as the Los Angeles press, has become one of the biggest U.S. weeklies by giving readers four-alarm coverage of gambling and other crimes that it charged were ignored by the local government. Three weeks ago Washington, D.C. dailies ran stories on the victory of Virginia Beach, Va. Publisher J. Willcox Dunn in his fight against the local Democratic machine. His Princess Anne Free Press won $65,000 damages-biggest libel award in Virginia's history-from a machine-owned opposition weekly that said Dunn "survived by lies...
...Ohio bends into West Virginia, the advantages of cheap power and good water, plus a vast underground block of salt 200 miles long and more than 100 ft. thick, have attracted scores of chemical companies: Columbia?Southern Chemical Corp., Koppers Co., Shea Chemical Corp., Union Carbide & Carbon Corp., Monsanto Chemical. Farther along, other companies are spending over $300 million to make everything from jet-engine parts to autos and electronic tubes...
Breath of Scandal. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Virginia K. Rand won a divorce after she testified that her husband objected to the way she was making garlic toast at a party, "made a scene in the presence of our guests and humiliated me by making the garlic toast himself...