Word: virginians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Then he sent pictures of these buildings and the Reynolds building to 13 top architectural deans, critics and architects for comment. Only one quarreled with his judgment that Reynolds was "the best since Jefferson." Thundered Frank Lloyd Wright, who concedes excellence to few other men: "If anything less Virginian could be imagined...
Whatever happened to the Cult of James Cabell? That quiet Virginian who wrote nineteen books; "the author of Jurgen," as he was loathe to be remembered. James Branch Cabell, a William and Mary graduate, newspaper reporter, magazine writer, coal miner, genealogist, and historian. Any of the latter-day literati who have skipped through the wispy medieval odyssey of a pawnbroker called Jurgen, and chuckled over all the phallic imagery, can appreciate Cabell as representative of an era--the era of gin-flasks, flappers, and sex in the back seat of Mr. Ford's Monstrosity...
First Enemies. The contributions of Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss, 62, courtly Virginian, onetime shoe salesman, onetime investment banker (Kuhn, Loeb & Co.), onetime Navy rear admiral (ordnance, naval research, atomic energy), were as basic as President Eisenhower said they were. In 1947, as a Truman-appointed AECommissioner, Lewis Strauss (rhymes with laws) pushed through the nuclear-detection system that in September 1949 spotted the first Communist atomic blast, put the free world on guard. In October 1949, against the objection of all four of his fellow AECommissioners and all eight of Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer's General Advisory Committee, he recommended...
...Douglas Martin for the Charlotte News and wirephotoed around the world by the Associated Press. Last week it won top honors (out of 743 entries from 20 countries) in The Netherlands Newspaper Publisher Association's annual photo contest. For Photographer Martin, who now works on the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, the honor was doubly welcome. Reason: the Charlotte News, which downplayed the integration story, never used his award-winning shot...
...pigeonholing the statehood bill, Howard Smith is clearly bucking a House majority, including Speaker Sam Rayburn. "The Speaker asked me to get it out of the Rules Committee," says Virginian Smith. "I told him I wouldn't if I could help it. I'm against it." By his tactics last week, Smith made sure that nothing would happen until at least mid-April. If he can stall for another month after that, nearly everyone agrees that the bill will be lost in the rush of House business-and Alaska will have to wait months or years longer...