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...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...
Reinforcements were the last things Anderson could expect from the Administration in Washington. The Secretary of War was John B. Floyd, a Virginian who at that moment was busy arranging to sell 10,000 U.S. muskets to seceding South Carolina for $2 apiece. Floyd later performed yeoman service for the Union by becoming one of the Confederacy's most inept generals, but now he was interested only in making sure that U.S. forces in Charleston were not strengthened by so much as a spitball. That fitted in perfectly with the policy of President James Buchanan, the "Old Public Functionary...
Died. William Allen ("Uncle Bill") Lundy, 109, youngest of the last three surviving Civil War veterans (the others: Texan Walter W. Williams, 114, Virginian John Sailing, in), who volunteered in the Alabama guard at 17, was proud of his Confederate background and freely passed on his secret for a long life: "Keep away from them doctors, and take a little nip all along"; in Crestview...
...final work was Ode to the Virginian Voyage, written a year ago by Randall Thompson '20 for the Virginia 350th Anniversary Commission. This big piece is in the tradition of the great Baroque "occasional" odes; in fact it is about two-thirds Handel and one-third Thompson. The third of the seven movements is a first cousin to the "Londonderry Air," and the fourth is based on the hymn "O God Our Help In Ages Past." There are fanfares and a full-blown fugue and finale. This is all effective writing, and the chorus produced some glorious sounds...
...massive resistance" to integration has a limited legal future. But as an astute politician hopefully headed for the governor's chair, Lindsay Almond, 59, recognizes something else as well. Massive resistance is the brain child of apple-growing, economy-minded U.S. Senator Harry Flood Byrd, and no Virginian has won statewide office in a quarter-century without Harry Byrd's blessing...