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Post by bernard on Nov 8, 2008 4:05:47 GMT -5
hamptonroads.com/2008/11/katie-couric-tom-wolfe-selected-virginia-beach-honorBy Lon Wagner The Virginian-Pilot © November 6, 2008 VIRGINIA BEACH Two people who are still living have been selected to join the Virginia Legends Walk, a monument near the Oceanfront that honors great Virginians. Katie Couric, anchor of the CBS Evening News, and Tom Wolfe, author of “The Right Stuff" and “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test,” were joined by the late William Styron as 2008 inductees. To be chosen, a person has to receive the vote of at least half the ballots, which are sent to university presidents, newspaper editors, history professors and librarians across Virginia. Styron, who won the Pulitzer Prize for literature for his “The Confessions of Nat Turner” in 1968, got nearly 52 percent of the votes and Wolfe and Couric got 50 percent each. A racehorse, Triple Crown winner Secretariat, and The Statler Brothers of Staunton narrowly missed being chosen. Honorees for the Legends Walk include Arthur Ashe, Pearl Bailey, Patsy Cline, Douglas MacArthur, Edgar Allan Poe and eight U.S. presidents.
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Post by JimmyW on Nov 8, 2008 18:28:46 GMT -5
I saw Patsy's marker a few year ago. Nice area and nice tribute.
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