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...remainder of the evening was taken up with two settings of the communion hymn 'ave Verum Corpus," one by Josquin des Pres and the second by William Byrd. Both were good (That's right, there are so many favorable adjectives in this that the supply is running pretty low). The concluding work on the program, Schutz's version of Psalm 84, was also competently performed. In all, it was quite a concert. Someone had quite evidently put a lot of work into...
...Byrd has been at odds with every subsequent President. He considered Harry Truman just another big spender. Irritated by Byrd's opposition, Truman made his famed offhand remark: There were, he told a White House visitor, "too many Byrds in Congress." Predictably, Byrd liked Ike-but the pair came to a parting of the political ways when Eisenhower ran up that whopping $12.4 billion budget deficit in 1959. "I didn't like that thing about sending those troops down to Arkansas either," recalls Byrd. Byrd has inflamed the segregation issue in Virginia with his demand for massive resistance...
Nothing attests to Byrd's influence on the voters of Virginia more convincingly than the fact that in the past three presidential elections Harry has been too busy "picking apples" to speak out for the Democratic ticket-and the state has gone Republican each time. Byrd did not endorse Ike in 1952, but he did tell Virginians by radio that "I will not, and cannot, in good conscience endorse the national Democratic platform or the Stevenson-Sparkman ticket." In 1956 he said nothing at all. In 1960 he announced only that "I have found at times that silence...
Tart Replies. In the Senate, Byrd's power is seldom exhibited before the galleries. Ordinarily, he is a poor speaker. But when his dander is up, his oratory can be blistering. His reply to criticism from Florida's Claude Pepper in 1946 is a Senate legend: "When I became a member of the Senate, a distinguished colleague said to me that it never paid to get into a contest with a skunk." When Hubert Humphrey, as a freshman Senator, had the temerity to call Byrd's Joint Committee on the Reduction of Nonessential Federal Expenditures an example...
...Belly. He comes to a high wire fence sealing off the Dumbarton Oaks estate, a public haven filled with dogwood, rhododendron and massive trees. Since it is not open so early in the morning, Byrd for years used to crawl on his belly through a hole in the fence. Then the hole was patched. Byrd hesitantly asked if he might have his own key to the gate-something the Park Service would have granted long ago at the slightest hint. "I got 'em to put in the Shenandoah Park when I was Governor. It was the Depression then...