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...year term on the Federal Communications Commission, replacing retiring Chairman George C. McConnaughey, 61, as a member of the commission, but not in the top job. The senior post goes to John C. Doerfer, 52, a tough, middle-roading lawyer who has been an FCCommissioner since 1953. A West Virginian born and educated (West Virginia University, '31), Lawyer Ford first went to work for FCC in 1947 after a stint at the Office of Price Administration, within six years worked up from hearing commissioner to chief of the hearing division of the Broadcast Bureau, before shifting to the Justice...
...Summer School Chorus of 100 members will give its annual concert on August 13 in Sanders Theatre; he continued; and included in the program this year will be Randall Thompson's "Ode to the Virginian Voyage...
...South's unflagging battle against civil-rights legislation, House Rules Committee Chairman Howard Smith has been serving as a quietly effective Dixie doodler. Virginian Smith bottled civil rights in committee for two months until a majority forced it out. When the measure reached the House floor last week, "Judge" Smith took command of Southerners marshaling to defeat or disembowel it. The bill's backers steeled themselves for diatribe and delay, quorum calls and quixotic demands. But with gaunt, mild-looking Howard Smith calling the shots, they were never more wrong...
...21st annual Masters golf tournament at the Augusta National Golf Club, Samuel Jackson Snead, 44, sneaked a look at the scoreboard and started with surprise. "You mean to tell me that ah shot a 74 and ah'm still leading this tournament?" drawled the balding West Virginian. "Man that must be a pitiful poor field out there...
...word was never printed as such in The Virginian. Said Author Wister, whose publishers blanked out the epithet, "I always regretted having to use '----' instead of the real oath that caused the Virginian to say 'When you call me that, smile.' I never had any sympathy with censorship; after all, if a word expresses an idea and only that word will do, it should be used...