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Tall, scholarly, bespectacled Virginius Dabney, 43, lives like a typical upper-class Southerner in a white frame house in Richmond, Va., with his pretty, vivacious wife "Doug," their three children and a maid of all work named Cora. Last summer, eyeing Cora enviously, a Richmond lady told V Dabney's wife, "If V would stop talking so much we might have some cooks in our kitchens...
...Again. Last week, as Virginians hotly argued over the State Supreme Court's invalidation of their soldier ballot act, cool Virginius Dabney celebrated the conclusion of his tenth year in command of the Richmond Times-Dispatch editorial page by harping gently on a familiar string. Since the poll tax is the nub of the soldier-vote question, why not-he suggested-use the projected constitutional convention to repeal the poll tax? Virginia's Bourbons, who pride themselves on the fact that the purpose of the poll tax is and always has been to limit the vote, shook their...
...Virginius Dabney has arrived at his liberal views by patient, thoughtful effort and constant conflict with his patrician heritage. His editorials, ground out with painful slowness, are almost pedantically preoccupied with both sides of the question. They are invariably prosaic and humorless. His advocacy last year of the abolition of Jim Crow busses and streetcars in Virginia, which set the whole South on its ear, was put forward in a quiet editorial entitled "The Conservative Course in Race Relations." Excerpt: "Many Virginians probably do not know it, but we have now arrived at the point where radicals from the North...
...Bryans planned to consolidate business and mechanical departments, move the Times-Dispatch into the News Leader'?, modern plant uptown. Editorial staffs will stay separate and intact. Didactic, Lee-worshiping Dr. Douglas Southall Freeman (TIME, April 1) will remain as editor of the News Leader. Virginius Dabney presumably will continue as editor of the Times-Dispatch...
Editor Douglas Southall Freeman last week celebrated his 3Oth anniversary as editorialist of the Richmond News Leader. In Richmond, as in many a Southern city, newspaper editorials are read and solemnly debated. Many a dinner table rings with arguments over what Virginius Dabney said this morning in the Times-Dispatch, what Douglas Freeman wrote in this afternoon's News Leader. Today few papers in the U. S. have such an editor as Freeman...