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where in the dark ages.”
He was also a writer, and after years of sojourns in China and the Far East and stints in Washington, he repaired with his family to France to work on a book. But Mr. Pickens couldn’t leave behind the journalist’s need to know the news, and so he subscribed to The New York Times.
“There was no air mail; it all came by sea. About every 10 days, this big bundle would arrive,” Mrs. Pickens recalled, spreading her arms to show that even then, The Times was a formidable pile of print. “He would read everything, front to back.” One day, Mrs. Pickens recalled, he put down his newspapers and announced,. “We have to buy land. It’s the only investment that makes sense.”
In the mid-1930s, Loudoun County was miles and miles and lifestyles away from the capital city.
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