Word: williamsburg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...statesmanlike fashion, he painted). Sampling the lighter side of U.S. life, Dr. Heuss bounced two miles in an old-fashioned buggy to a rodeo in Prescott, Ariz. (His comment: "I looked to see if they dressed the way cowboys do in the movies, but they dress better"), and in Williamsburg, Va.. true to the colonial spirit, he draped himself in a yard-square bib for a roaring good feast at the King's Arms Tavern...
...classes of readers are apt to be depressed by historical novels. This form of literature, which requires a strict convention of disbelief, is perfectly exemplified in The Winthrop Woman, a bulging package of period color, religion, sex, sadism and witchcraft. It is written in what can only be called Williamsburg prose-the settings and costumes are as authentic as money and research can buy, and if the hands and heads that stick through the quaint old collars and cuffs are stuffed with straw, there will be no complaints from the fans of fancy-dress fiction. Novelist Seton (Dragonwyck, Katherine) moves...
Smiling, attentive, the King swiftly flipped through the Washington tourist spots dressed in djellabah. He accepted an honorary doctor of laws degree from George Washington University, visited Washington's new mosque, Bashir Ahmad, flew down to colonial Williamsburg in Virginia. At the restored Governor's Palace, a guide told the King that "as elegant as the place is, there were limited washroom facilities [in colonial times]." Confessed the King wryly: "We have the same trouble...
...symbols, there were aplenty: the Queen and Prince arrived in the U.S. from Canada, landing, in their R.C.A.F. plane near Williamsburg, Va., at a place called Patrick Henry Airport. Spaced among a dozen occasions of ceremonial pomp, they spent the day touring the old, restored towns of Williamsburg and Jamestown, which is celebrating the 350th anniversary of the first permanent British settlement on American shores. Through it all, crowds of eager-eyed onlookers strained at the heavily guarded barriers, marveled at Elizabeth's cordially regal attitude, Philip's smiling nonchalance. "Say," said...
While some U.S. cities spend millions rebuilding the past after it has been destroyed (as witness, Williamsburg, Va.), others heedlessly continue to destroy a rich heritage of irreplaceable architectural monuments. Case in point: the impending destruction of one of the finest Gothic Revival mansions in the U.S., designed in 1846, and maintained in near perfect condition as a period piece both inside and out until it was willed to the city of Bridgeport, Conn, last year by the late Industrialist Archer C. Wheeler. Because the mansion stands on what is now valuable downtown real estate, Bridgeport's Socialist Mayor...