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...other news of Williamsburg, see EDUCATION...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Inside Dope | 9/24/1951 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Inside Dope | 9/24/1951 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Home-Town Boy | 7/23/1951 | See Source »

Harry Truman sat on the weather deck of the U.S.S. Williamsburg and bared his white chest to the sun. It was his first trip away from Washington since last March, but it was not complete escape. Each morning, courier seaplanes skimmed into the water alongside the presidential, yacht in Chesapeake Bay and delivered locked leather pouches from the White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Itchy Problem | 6/11/1951 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Steady Hand | 6/11/1951 | See Source »

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