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...Virginian myself, whose mother came from a long line of Virginians and whose mother and father were married in the present City of Norfolk, I accept as a great honor the invitation of the city to place my papers, decorations and other mementos of my military service in its perpetual care and keeping." Thus last week did General of the Army Douglas MacArthur notify the birthplace of his mother that he was consigning his vast memorabilia to its custody; he also requested that he and his wife be buried in Norfolk. The city has big plans for MacArthur. It will...
...ride over its main line, says the Handbook of American Railroads, instills "a sense that everything is in 'apple-pie order' and as it should be. "The road is also growth-minded; last year the Interstate Commerce Commission approved a merger between the N. & W. and the Virginian, the first merger of two independently owned railroads in this century. Last week the road's go-ahead President Stuart T. Saunders announced a new merger plan to put together a railroad giant that could be the nation's most profitable transportation complex...
Nowhere is Norfolk's quest for a new personality better reflected than in the city's two newspapers: the morning Virginian-Pilot and the afternoon Ledger-Dispatch and Portsmouth Star (which is in fact one paper, with separate editions for Norfolk and neighboring Portsmouth). Although both are owned by the parent Ledger-Dispatch Corp., the papers are fiercely competitive in their search for the news and often differ editorially on some of the South's most basic problems...
...middle-reading. In Virginia's 1958 school desegregation crisis, the Pilot was the only daily in Virginia to agree from the very beginning that the U.S. Supreme Court's integration orders must be obeyed. "We don't call ourselves liberals," says Editor Lenoir Chambers of the Virginian-Pilot. "We never preached the doctrine of integration." But as Chambers wrote in a 1959 editorial series that won him a Pulitzer Prize, "The mark of Virginia's political shame is that in this confusion it found no better method than abandoning public education entirely rather than follow...
Lenoir Chambers, editor, Norfolk Virginian-Pilot...