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Newspaper
Danville Register
Location
Danville, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1976
Page
10
The piece extols sea sports as tests of endurance and spirit, contrasting Olympic swimming pain with solo sailing challenges. It cites Odysseus and Captain Slocum, notes the thrill and danger of inshore swimming and single-handed sailing, and hones in on how individuals confront Poseidon alone or in small crafts amid changing conditions.
Heywood Hale Broun built a varied career as journalist and broadcaster, writing for PM and Star in the 1940s, then acting on Broadway for 25 years. In 1986 he joined CBS TV Evening News as sports essayist with Roger Mudd and authored A Studied Madness. He edited his father’s papers and contributed to popular magazines.
University of Virginia scholars Edmund Berkeley Jr and Dr. Fred V. Carstensen will lead a project to catalog over a ton of Low Moor Iron Co. papers southwest of Clifton Forge. The six decades of ledgers and correspondence reveal worker ethnic mix, including Italian names and Malian labor, and trace career progress and skill advancement within the plant. The team received a $14,000 NEH grant to prepare a card index for the material.
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