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...historic Williamsburg, capital of colonial Virginia, he skipped his usual Sunday church service, strolled in the warm sun, poked around the old town. He did some work in his room in the Williamsburg Inn, left Monday afternoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada at War: THE DOMINION: Profitable Journey | 3/26/1945 | See Source »

...elemental plot of the Nolan family growing up in Williamsburg, there is a great opportunity for characterization at the happy expense of the narrative force which the cinema more often emphasizes. Peggy Ann Garner and Ted Donaldson come through with character jobs as Francie and Neeley that without a doubt redeem any of the picture's tedium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 3/16/1945 | See Source »

This suggestion, in a Lincoln Day editorial in the undergraduate weekly Flat Hat of Virginia's old (1693) William and Mary College at Williamsburg, led swiftly last week to: 1) the firing of Flat Hat's Editor in Chief, 22-year-old Marilyn Kaemmerle of Jackson, Mich., who wrote the editorial; 2) an administration edict that the paper's remaining editors must choose between faculty censorship and suspension; 3) a spirited mass meeting of W. & M.'s 1,000-odd students protesting infringement of the "sacred principles of freedom of the press" bequeathed by Alumnus Thomas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Jefferson's Heirs | 2/26/1945 | See Source »

...according to the best modern practice and in the light of the fullest recent scholarship. The papers previously had not been fully catalogued, and the Library is preparing descriptive material to accompany the microfilm reproductions. This editorial work is being done by Mrs. Helen Bullock, firmer Archivist of Colonial Williamsburg and now a member of the Library of Congress staff. Mrs. Bullock is utilizing in her work the results of the unique union catalog of Jefferson correspondence maintained by the University of Virginia Library. She has succeeded in dating or completely identifying dozens of manuscript items which previously had been...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Widener Library to Receive Microfilmed Jeffersoniana | 6/23/1944 | See Source »

...Beacon's story came from the ex-chaplain himself: Dr. Norbett G. Talbott, pastor of the Methodist Church at Huntingburg, Ind. Last spring, Pastor Talbott entered the Naval Training School for Chaplains at Williamsburg, Va. He got along fine until course's end, when he was interviewed by three fellow chaplains of a survey board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: One Less Chaplain | 2/7/1944 | See Source »

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