Word: virginias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...VIRGINIA L. COPE Cincinnati
...Cryan Shames. There are the Gurus, the Druids, the Rockin' Vicars, the Swinging Saints and the Godz. And dig the Grateful Dead, the Undertakers, the Guillo-teens and the Morbids. Or Oedipus and the Mothers, Sigmund and the Freudian Slips, and Cleopatra and the Seizures. How about the Virginia Woolves? There are also the Napoleonic Wars, Rasputin and the Chains, the Driving Stupid, Big Brother and the Holding Company, and Dow Jones and the Industrials...
...favorite sport, the corruption of London's gin-swilling slums, all these are just a sampling of the subjects contained in the pictorial encyclopedia of Paul Mellon's private English painting collection. So vast has it grown that just to hang its choicest items, Richmond's Virginia Museum of Fine Arts cleared out all its picture galleries 31 years ago. But for all of Virginia's traditional ties to old England, Loyal Yale Grad Mellon ('29) showed 300 of the paintings at Yale last year and last week decided that the collection's proper...
...begin with, private entrepreneurs and even large companies are wary of financing them. Reston, Virginia, is a case in point. Between 1962 and 1964 Robert Simon, an architect, made unsuccessful attempts to borrow money for Reston from eighty different sources, including banks, insurance companies, and large corporations. Finally, just five days before the deadline set by Simon's contractors, Gulf Oil made a fifteen million dollar commitment. The price: first mortgage on all of Simon's land, an option to buy stock in Reston, and the only gas station in town...
...SEARCH OF CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE by A. D. Wraight and Virginia Stern. 376 pages. Vanguard. $12.50. A pictorial investigation of the one Elizabethan poet who could hold a candle to Shakespeare and who was a trouble-maker as well. Marlowe's route is traced through contemporary prints and present-day photos of his haunts. In trouble with the Star Chamber because of his vocal atheism, Marlowe was killed in a drunken brawl at Deptford, just as the law was closing in. The murder had so many loose ends that historians still wonder...