Word: virginius
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three Skyrockets have been built. One has cracked up; the remaining two have been used as flying laboratories in the hands of two redoubtable old men of the air: the Navy's Captain William Virginius Davis, 47, and Douglas' test pilot, Gene May, who is 45 and a grandfather...
...MESSIAH (353 pp.)-Virginius Dabney-Knopf...
Wall Street & Walkouts. Dry Messiah is Richmond Newspaper Editor Virginius Dabney's careful and stolid look at a puritan's progress from circuit-riding man-of-God to arrogant director of a nation's morals. It does little to explain the man or the moral climate in which he was bred, but it is a useful and embarrassing reminder that for over a decade Cannon's narrow vision and flinty prohibitionist zeal were among the most persuasive forces in U.S. politics...
...Majority stockholders: Publisher David Tennant Bryan and his family, who also control Richmond's only other paper, the morning Times-Dispatch. Freeman's opposite number on the Times-Dispatch is famed Southern Editor Virginius Dabney...
...Richmond Times-Dispatch's Virginius Dabney, for editorials...