Word: williamsburg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy chaplains were getting toughening-up training, too. At Virginia's College of William & Mary (Williamsburg) they hiked, worked in the gymnasium between classes. At the course's climax they dived through burning oil in the swimming pool, pushed ahead under water, came up with arms thrashing, finally made it into flame-free water and clambered out. For men who had just left school or pastorate, it was a rugged business...
...haired, olive-skinned, hazel-eyed Georgia O'Keeffe was born 55 years ago in Sun Prairie, Wis. Her father was an Irish farmer, her mother was Hungarian. After the family moved to Williamsburg, Va., in 1901, Georgia decided to become a painter, studied at the Chicago Art Institute and at Manhattan's Art Students League, where she was known as "Patsy." A winter of painting as her teachers taught it convinced her that she could not paint at all. She worked as a commercial artist in Chicago, a public-school art supervisor in Amarillo, Tex. She calls Texas...
...Hollywood, or painless, treatment of the same subject as Leftist Michael Gold's Jews Without Money. An elderly Rumanian named Mr. Marco is the acknowledged patriarch of the pushcart market and adjacent tenements under Manhattan's Williamsburg Bridge. Shrewd as Solomon and benign as an Easter bunny, Mr. Marco spends his days getting evicted tenants restored to their rooms, destitute European refugees set up in the pushcart business. But eventually a real-estate company razes the tenements and disperses the pushcarts. At a last neighborhood party, brightened by his market-place alumni who have grown rich, Mr. Marco...
Died. Dr. Mahlon William Locke, 61, Ontario's famed assembly-line purveyor of arthritis treatments (by foot yanking); of a heart attack; near his home, Williamsburg, Ont. He did most of his work seated in a swivel chair in his yard, whirling around to queues of patients converging on him like the spokes of a wheel. He charged $1 a visit (usually less than a minute), and at the height of his popularity attracted as many as 1,000 patients...
...mountains stretched sleepily before them. Black boys in white coats slid constantly among them with trays of tall glasses wrapped in white paper napkins. . . . Not a cloud in the sky. All were dreaming and talking of next year's harvest of tourists to Vermont, Yosemite, Miami, Williamsburg. Suddenly the sound of airplanes came from high above us. Hardly a soul looked up. I searched but could see nothing till two small clouds of glistening white like snowflakes showed where a tremendous flock of swans or geese had been split into confusion by three Airacobras. The birds formed again, melted...