Word: williamsburg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nearby Williamsburg, Va., another lady Washington also admired (though presumably from afar) showed up last week, with the discovery in a private collection of another Charles Willson Peale portrait-this one of Actress Nancy Hallam, one of America's first glamour girls. The portrait, unidentified for more than a century, shows Actress Hallam playing the role of Imogen in Shakespeare's Cymbeline. Hailed as "superfine" by a contemporary theatergoer, and not above playing the daring "breeches part" of a young man on stage, Nancy and her charms lured Washington to the theater five times in one week...
...pink-coated hunters. In the sandy jack-pine country near the North Carolina line, warehouses bulged with the Bright Tobacco that enriched Virginia by $84 million last year. In southside Virginia, below Richmond, jets of ocher-colored steam spewed from National Aniline's new, modernistic chemical plant. In Williamsburg, tourists moved quietly, reverently, through shrines that attest to Virginia's historic leadership. Near Berryville, plump apples were being pared, cored, cooked and canned in a spice-fragrant plant owned by Virginia's present-day political leader: U.S. Senator Harry Flood Byrd. And in Charlottesville, Mrs. Roger Boyle...
Simultaneously J.D.R. Jr. set about recreating the feel of heritage from the repaired palace at Versailles through diggings in Egypt and art museums in New York to the majestic $50 million restoration of Colonial Williamsburg...
...With an instinctive feeling for the latent resources of the U.S. and the world, he has raised the levels of education, gathered art for all to see, inspired millions with the natural beauty of national park sites, reconstructed the sights and sounds of history in projects such as Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia and the magnificent Stoa in Athens, Greece. He has given a home site to the United Nations, trained most of China's doctors, directed the efforts of American mission aries abroad, built Manhattan's breathtaking Rockefeller Center, and in general mobilized the best talent he could...
...kilt was accepted "without gibes from the males and with downright enthusiasm by the females." In Gig Harbor, Wash, a high-school student won an award in the Betty Crocker "American Homemaker of Tomorrow" contest, took her British home-economics teacher along on the winning trip to Washington, D.C., Williamsburg and Philadelphia. "It was," said the Briton later, "one of those things that could only have happened in this fabulous country...