Word: williamsburg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Norfolk Navy Yard last week shipwrights swarmed over a rakish gunboat, reconverting her into a presidential yacht for Harry Truman. She was the U.S.S. Williamsburg, lately with the Atlantic Fleet, before that a high-speed convoy flagship based in Iceland...
When she is commissioned, in about two months, the Williamsburg will be the sixth in her line. In the Republic's first struggling century, U.S. Presidents went yachtless. But in 1893, as the head of a rising naval power, Grover Cleveland took to cruising aboard the gunboat Dolphin. McKinley sailed in the Sylph, and by the time Roosevelt I took over the hefty (2,690-ton) Mayflower, a yacht was considered standard office equipment for a President...
...historic Williamsburg, capital of colonial Virginia, he skipped his usual Sunday church service, strolled in the warm sun, poked around the old town. He did some work in his room in the Williamsburg Inn, left Monday afternoon...
...elemental plot of the Nolan family growing up in Williamsburg, there is a great opportunity for characterization at the happy expense of the narrative force which the cinema more often emphasizes. Peggy Ann Garner and Ted Donaldson come through with character jobs as Francie and Neeley that without a doubt redeem any of the picture's tedium...
This suggestion, in a Lincoln Day editorial in the undergraduate weekly Flat Hat of Virginia's old (1693) William and Mary College at Williamsburg, led swiftly last week to: 1) the firing of Flat Hat's Editor in Chief, 22-year-old Marilyn Kaemmerle of Jackson, Mich., who wrote the editorial; 2) an administration edict that the paper's remaining editors must choose between faculty censorship and suspension; 3) a spirited mass meeting of W. & M.'s 1,000-odd students protesting infringement of the "sacred principles of freedom of the press" bequeathed by Alumnus Thomas...