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...president since 1951 of I. Magnin & Co.'s high-style women's stores in San Francisco and 15 other Western cities, who, instead of copying European fashions, imported them at realistic prices, turned his stores into the best in the West; of a heart attack; in Williamsburg...
...Mexico, Tito flew into Virginia's Langley Air Force Base a full hour ahead of schedule. It was not that he was overanxious-just that he was operating on Standard Time instead of Daylight-Saving Time. From Langley, Tito and his statuesque wife Jovanka, 39, drove to colonial Williamsburg and spent 30 minutes touring the town that the Rockefellers restored to 18th century authenticity at an expense of $72 million. Their home for the night was Williamsburg's 200-year-old Allen-Byrd House...
...Overseers will be meeting outside Cambridge for only the second time since the board was established in 1637. The Board met in Washington and in Williamsburg...
Born in the teeming Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, Auerbach was a standout player himself in high school and at George Washington University in Washington. D.C. He watched how his coach, Bill Reinhart, welded a strong team together from the diverse styles practiced around the country. In 1946 Auerbach talked a Washington. D.C., arena owner into sponsoring a pro team in the newly formed Basketball Association of America. "It cost me less than $500 in phone calls to assemble the club." says Auerbach, "and I stuck to Bill Reinhart's theory...
...also objects of genuine beauty. To those with affection for the field, this shortcoming has been especially galling, for there was a time when the city had two of the best collections in the country. Unhappily for New Yorkers, the pioneering collection of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller ended up in Williamsburg, Va., and the collection of Electra Havemeyer Webb became the nucleus of the Shelburne Museum in Vermont...