Debutantes Train for Christmas Season in Clarke County
Local society notes reveal Miss Deirdre Donovan and Miss Frances Crawford among debutantes as parties and dances fill the Christmas week. Families including the Gilpins, Clagetts, and Dillons host gatherings at homes like Scabby and Springfield, with students returning from Pine Manor, Colby, Foxcroft, and Hannah More academies for holiday events and concerts at William and Mary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss
Deirdre Mary Donovan
David Donovan
Chapel Hill
Mary Donovan
Pine Manor Junior College
Wellesley, Mass
Frances Crawford
Walter Crawford
Chicago
Middleburg
Susan Sommer Clagett
William Claggett, Jr
Springfield
St. Timothy
Stevenson
Winchester Country Club
Kenneth Gilpin
Scaleby
John Nightingale
Boston
Charles Garrison
Philadelphia
Red Fox Tavern
Howard Petithoe
Rochester
A.W. Sommaripn
Robert Barnes
New York
William Clagett
Man to Leave Hospital With Bullet In Head
Clifford Louy of Brookland Arkansas plans to go home this weekend despite a bullet lodged in his head from a self inflicted gunshot during a cvon hunting incident two weeks ago. Doctors say the bullet is not causing trouble and will remain in place.
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Memphis
Clifford Louy
Brookland
Ark
Louy
Cvon
Vienna Fires Town Clerk After Misappropriation Probe
The Vienna Town Council, Virginia, terminated Town Clerk Irene C. Crider after she had been suspended amid a deputy’s charge of misappropriating nearly $10,000 from auto tag funds. A bullet entry note appears unrelated to the firing and describes a separate injury incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vienna, Va
Irene C. Crider
Eddystone Lighthouse Erected by Henry Winstanley
In 1698 Henry Winstanley built the Eddystone Light off Plymouth Harbor England to meet the biggest storm. Five years later a historic England storm swept away the lighthouse the crew and Winstanley in a fatal loss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eddystone
Plymouth Harbor
England
Henry Winstanley
Winstanley
Federal Judge Orders Virginia Prisoner Freed
A federal district judge in Richmond ordered the immediate release of Nathan Thomas of Russell County after ruling his eight year imprisonment was based on a tainted trial and denial of due process. Thomas was convicted in Buchanan on July 22 1955 on six grand larceny counts while physicians testified he was mentally ill. He received a five year sentence in Dickenson County for grand larceny and the Buchanan authorities refused to commit him to a state hospital for observation. The state has appealed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Southwest Virginia
Oren R. Lewis
Nathan Thomas
Russell County
Thomas
Buchanan
Dickenson County
Lewis
German Composer Secrets and Opera Clues Puzzle
Crossword style clues reference Johann Sebastian Bach Lohengrin Shakespeare Shoshonean English river highway memory nudge shield bearing Moslem decree Lass Silvers Eagle program director journey taxable connoisseurs German river transgression transmitted bleaching vat rebuilt Norman town Gershwin writer Tannhauser harangue Bhha connoisseurs German river transgression transmitted Whitesmith famous opera star fabulous bird time period competent Mongolian desert musical pause region canvas shelter Estonian dessert hostelry.
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Orm
Norman Town
Gershwin
Tannhauser
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Ray Stimpson
University of Arita
Harry
Rosney
Dunning
Lake Forest
Thomas Dunn’t
Randolph-Macon College
Ashland
A. R. Dunning
Nicholas
Enson
A. R. Dunning, Jr
Indianhead
Timothy Birch
Blue Ridge
Bo Young
Grafton
W. Conroy Wilson
Hannah More Academy
Kenneth Gilpin, III
Bobby Humes
The
Hill School
Kenneth Gilpin, Jr
Kentmere
Tyre Dillard and
Childrn
Anne Humes
Bruce Gray
Tyson Gilpin
William Mitchell
Thomas White
Harry Stimpson
Diane Josephy
Scripps College
Claremont
Calif
David Donee
William Donovan
New Hampshire
Mimi Donovan
Deirdre Donovan
Andy
Drew Gilpin
Concord Academy
Tyson Gilpin, Jr
Princeton
Tyree Dillard
the Hill School
Jeanne Dillard
John Phillips
London
Blue Hill
Phillips
Mrs. Dillard
John Warner
Grant Wesner
Reading
Richard Butler
Dau
Ghter
Elizabeth
College of William and Mary
Rosaline Butler
Eva Noland
Florida
Powhatan School
Boyce Parish Hall
Man
Vienna
Richmond (Ap
Owel
Eval Jewelers
Cleveland
Ches
Virginia
Johann Sebastian
Hrida
Arabian Seaport
Seine
Boris Godunov
Miss Stevens
Kathleen Mavourneer
Mineraltar
Famous
Whitesmith
Newspaper Enterprise Assn
Kodak
U.S. Pat
Canada
Gistere
eAtate Crest Ny
America
American Express
Ady
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