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...stuff and hot revelations have already been promised by Mr. Dies and by Senator La Follette, the former now recovered from an appendectomy that temporarily affected his heart. Mr. Smith, the calm, unpurged Virginian, has promised only a "fair and impartial" scrutiny of NLRB, but New Dealers do not like the look in his eye (TIME, July...
...William Henry Harrison (ninth President) was a Virginian; Reader Rosema meant Benjamin Harrison (23rd). Overlooked: Ulysses Simpson Grant, born in a cabin at Point Pleasant, 22 miles up the Ohio River from Cincinnati. Reader Rosema will find the cabin, restored, a part of Grant Memorial Park...
Tall, haughty and always immaculately dressed, wearing a white mustache and a wing collar, Benedict Cobb spent much of his time after his wife died in 1929 taking long daily walks with his nurse, Miss Miriam M. Caldwell, a vivacious Virginian. In a Pittsfield hotel last Thanksgiving Day, at 89, he died. In his will, announced last week, childless Benedict Cobb, last of his family, left $250,000 to his nurse, $450,000 to hospitals, a total of $1,340,000 in specific bequests. Yale got $400,000 of that and an estimated $1,400,000 in his residuary estate...
Bill Coleman, who divided the right guard assignment with Dave Glueck, had a novel experience. A Virginian gave him a terrific block and mentioned something about "Damyankees." Big Bill referred to the fact that his home was in Baltimore, darn close to the Mason-Dixon line. "Oh, I'm sorry," declared the invader, and helped Bill to his feet with true Southern hospitality. There are other stories, mostly of a more unprintable varisty...
...cycle. Further south, in the Carolinas, the college boys are required to drink a jug of "so'th'n cawn" to prove they are gentlemen and scholars. Ther is no necessity for such measures at the University of Virginia. It is considered an insult even to intimate that a Virginian could not master such a meagre portion of the brew on which he has been raised...