Word: virginias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ROAD. Audrey Hepburn is surprisingly good as a Virginia Woolf-cub, but Albert Finney is curiously unsympathetic as her husband in a union that keeps going on strike...
Outside Distractions. "I think you have an obsession with secrecy, Mr. Webb," snapped Representative John W. Wydler of New York. Added Representative Ken Hechler of West Virginia: "I intend to be much more skeptical of NASA in the future, on this program and others...
...River Mills, a medium-sized Virginia textile firm (1966 sales: $281 million), and smaller, North Carolina-based Fieldcrest Mills ($171 million) decided to copy the long-established industry pattern by merging. If stockholders approve a swap of securities worth some $87 million, the merged company will have combined sales of more than $450 million, a strong position as the U.S.'s fourth biggest publicly owned textile company (after Burlington Industries, J. P. Stevens & Co. and United Merchants and Manufacturers), and a new name: Dan River Fieldcrest...
...seed of a surging city, though in fact they often went bankrupt, and some of the towns themselves disappeared. Two San Francisco papers, the California Star and the Californian, folded overnight when the city was emptied by the 1848 gold rush. William J. Forbes, who published the Virginia City (Nev.) Daily Trespass, gave up in disgust. "Of 20 men," he said, "19 patronize the saloons and one the newspaper, and I am going with the crowd." He opened a saloon. But when he had built up a sufficient stake, he once again started a newspaper...
When news was short, editors improvised. They resorted to poetry and Latin and printed irreverent homilies, such as this one from the Virginia City (Mont.) Weekly Republican: "Brigham Young agrees to confine himself to one woman, if every member of Congress will do the same." And they were not above publishing fiction as fact. Mark Twain got his start in just this way when he was working for the Virginia City (Nev.) Territorial Enterprise. In one grisly fabrication, he described how a man murdered his wife and nine children, inflicted a mortal wound on himself, then rode four miles...