Word: alexandria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night before his death in 1799, George Washington sent one of his slaves from Mount Vernon to fetch the latest copy of his favorite daily newspaper-the Alexandria (Va.) Gazette. When he died, the Gazette ran black, reversed-ruled borders on its columns and a poem which began: "What means the solemn dirge that strikes my ear?" "Light Horse Harry" Lee subscribed to the Gazette; his son Robert E. Lee, was reared on it, and Henry Clay wrote...
Down through the years, from the Constitutional Convention to the Dixiecrat revolt, the Gazette has told the news with a Southern accent. Last week, in a 132-page anniversary issue, the oldest U.S. daily newspaper marked Alexandria's 200th birthday and looked back over its own 166 years...
Underground. Though it has changed ownership only once since 1800, the Gazette (circ. 9,200) has had eight different names and has suffered more violent changes. Gazette Founder Samuel Snowden and son Edgar pursued a, conservative editorial way until the Civil War. When Federal occupation troops arrested an Alexandria minister in church for refusing to pray for Abraham Lincoln, the Gazette cried out at the indignity. Angry Unionists burned the offices down, and the paper had to publish underground. When it finally made peace with the Unionists and emerged, the Gazette was still unreconstructed...
Theodore H. Turner of Kirkalnd House and Los Angeles; House Squash, NSA. George I. Harris of Adams House and Beechhurst, New York; Student Council, World Student Service Fund, J. V. Football. James F. Pitman of Kirkland House and Alexandria, Virginla; Band, Kirkland Dance Committee, WHRV...
James E. Pitman of Kirkland House and Alexandria, Va.; Harvard University Band; Kirkland House Dance Committee; Harvard Radio Network; Kirkland House Crew...