Word: williamsburg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other news of Williamsburg, see EDUCATION...
...Williamsburg, Va.† dressed up in its 2OO-years-ago best to welcome the visiting Lord Mayor of London, Sir Denys Lowson, 45, the youngest to hold office since Dick Whittington took the oath at the age of 38. On a good-will visit to "knit closer together the bonds of friendship," he closed the four-day pageant by leading a parade of mayors from the colonial capitals of the 13 original states...
...John Pomfret was almost too academic for his own good. The things that began to boom loudest on the shady Williamsburg campus were the things he concerned himself with least. For the first time, the football team began to take on such powerhouses as Michigan State and Boston University. The basketball team played in Madison Square Garden...
...White House Democrats, who don't really know what the boss's plans are (as of last week they thought he probably wouldn't run again), think that Harry Truman, if he does not run, will designate Vinson as his successor. Vinson is a poker-playing, Williamsburg-weekending pal of the President's, and regularly gives the President advice on appointments and legislation-a practice that might have horrified some of his predecessors as Chief Justice. Besides, he is conservative enough, regular enough, and close enough to the South to enjoy the respect of Southern Democrats...
...oldest, for their antiquity was planned in advance and custom-made. Upperclassmen eat in baronial halls, may sit under imposing chandeliers or by an imported Burgundian fireplace, use silver sugar bowls. Yale's Divinity School looks as if it might have been moved up from Williamsburg; the university library looks like a cathedral ("Must I genuflect?" a bemused visitor once exclaimed); its main power plant is clothed in stone to look like a Gothic tower...