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Except for the fact that it boasts one saloon for every 34 residents. Virginia City, Nev., a town of 515 atop the exhausted Comstock Lode, always seemed a wildly improbable place for so determined a dandy as Lucius Beebe. But settle there Beebe did, when he bought a long-defunct weekly, the Territorial Enterprise, in 1952 and resurrected it with an editorial policy of "benevolent backwardness" and "low moral tone, high alcoholic content." Recently, the onetime diarist of New York society, jaded at 58, has been edging away from Virginia City's sagebrush and saloons. Last week his unlikely...
...with a half-sung patter about how hard they have worked on the act and how glad they are to be there. Then they charge down among the first few tables and shake hands. Phillip recalls that when they were children on their father's ranch at Elko, Nev., "there wasn't much to do of a night except sit on the front porch and harmonize." They do, uncertainly, in husky voices that resemble each other too much and Bing's too little. Punching shoulders, mugging at clinkers and bouncing all the while, they work like piano...
...Fitzgerald, 38, leader of the Thunderbirds, the Air Force's stunt-flying team; in a jet crash; not during an acrobatic maneuver but as he flew behind his teammates explaining their routines to a passenger, Captain George A. Nial, 31, who also was killed; at Thunderbird Lake, Nev., a dry lake named for the team...
...readers of the Virginia City (Nev.) Territorial Enterprise are no strangers to proposals in ornate Victorian prose to turn the clock back. Some time after he revived the long dormant Enterprise for a plaything in 1952, aging (57) Dandy Lucius Beebe, onetime high-society chronicler for the New York Herald Tribune, genially proclaimed: "The editorial policy of the Enterprise is benevolent backwardness-reaction against everything." Last week the enterprising Enterprise, tongue only half in cheek, declared that since the centennial of the Civil War is to be observed next year, it might be fitting to reverse history and have...
...McCambridge, who helped run the draft-Stevenson group at the Los Angeles convention, labored dutifully for Kennedy during the campaign, last week said bitterly: "I'm tired of democracy. We should have a monarchy, with Tuesday Weld as one of the princesses and a nice couple from Armpit, Nev. to reign. I have a Citizen Kane feeling about Daddy Kennedy sitting out here directing the show behind the scenes from Marion Davies' house...