Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Virginia-born and educated (Virginia Military Institute, '39), Burgess began his fast-moving career as a New York claims adjuster for the Liberty Mutual Life Insurance Co. He went into the Army in 1942 as a 2nd lieutenant, emerged three years later a colonel and secretary to the General Staff at SHAEF. After a spell in the State Department, he was assistant to T.W.A. President Jack Frye in 1946-47. When Frye quit to run General Aniline & Film, Burgess went along, later was tapped to head a study of White House organization...
Some districts have a reputation for being harder than others. The Middle Atlantic one, for instance--consisting of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland-D.C., and West Virginia--is supposed to be the toughest...
...satellite will be launched from Patrick Air Force Base at Point Canaveral, Florida, out over the Atlantic. While it might be easier to observe if fired due north, directly over the pole, inhabitants of Virginia or the Carolinas might be upset to find the earlier stages of the rocket dropping onto their front lawns. Fish, presumably, won't complain...
...world's top-earning, high-fashion model, Manhattan's svelte Dovima (a blend of her given names, Dorothy Virginia Margaret), 28, announced that she will soon up her posing rate from a classy $60 an hour to a classier $75. Reason: just like a baseball player, Dovima, a onetime $30-a-week candy counter girl, really wants her golden years to pay off. Lean, long Dovima sighed a prediction: "Photographers still like us as long, lean and thin as ever for fashion. But I think they are looking for a more natural, happy look instead of the gaunt...
Died. Rudolph Halley, 43, onetime (1950-51) horn-rimmed hawkshaw for Senator Estes Kefauver's much-televised Senate Crime Investigating Committee, who as chief counsel grilled Underworld-lings Mickey Cohen. Frank Costello, Virginia Hill and Frank Erickson, won the New York City Council presidency in 1951 as a Liberal Party candidate on the strength of his performance; of acute pancreatitis; in Manhattan...