Word: raleigh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Singles--Gaines (P) defeated Ager (H), 6-2, 6-1; Bullard (H) defeated Raleigh (P), 3-6, 7-5, 6-2; Parmele (P) defeated Ames (H), 6-2, 6-4; Blair (P) defeated Hughes (H) 6-1, 6-2; Bucknell (P) defeated Frey (H), 7-5, 4-6, 7-5; Hiley (P) defeated Robb (H), 6-0, 6-3. Doubles--(incomplete)--Gaines and Parmele (P) defeated Ames and Hughes...
...North Carolina legislature has upped its contribution too. Last year, they supported Ben's orchestra to the tune of $12,000 (to let the legislators hear what they're voting for, he takes the orchestra onto the floor of the state capitol at Raleigh every year for an evening concert). Last week, they voted him $15,000 to carry on next year...
...eyewitness accounts of Sir Francis Bacon, whose eye was "like the eie of a viper." Izaak Walton regaled him with anecdotes about the young bricklayer named Ben Jonson who went to Cambridge and died court poet; from an ancient servant he heard of the historic day when Sir Walter Raleigh, fresh from the New World, threw the ladies into fits by puffing a pipe of tobacco. From here & there, Aubrey gleaned tales about a Stratford butcher's boy who was caught poaching; in fact, John Aubrey was one of William Shakespeare's first biographers...
...Fort. On Roanoke Island, N.C., archeologists got closer to the unanswered riddle of the "Lost Colony." Results from excavations started over a year ago have convinced Jean C. ("Pinky") Harrington of the National Park Service that he has uncovered the outlines of Fort Raleigh built by Governor Ralph Lane in 1585. The radical shape of the fort (its bastions are on the sides, rather than the corners) is identical with another fort built by Governor Lane in Puerto Rico while en route to Roanoke...
Maladjusted. In Raleigh, North Carolina State Museum officials announced that their most popular fish had drowned...