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...concert will include works by Handel, Rameau, Isaac, Ortiz, and Byrd. Some of the selections to be played are Praeludium, Si dormiero, Troisieme concert en trio, and Recercada sobre...
Virginia (32): At the urging of Senator Harry Byrd, probably a unit vote for Lyndon Johnson on early balloting, then a switch to the leading candidate whose civil-rights stand seems least obnoxious...
...roaring '203 Roosevelt Field, only 20 miles from Manhattan's Times Square, was America's "Cradle of Aviation." There one rainy dawn in May, 1927, Charles Augustus Lindbergh took off for Paris; within the next 40 days Clarence Chamberlin set out for Berlin and Richard Evelyn Byrd took off for the Continent, landing in the French surf. Roosevelt saw Wiley Post and Harold Gatty fly off in the Winnie Mae one June day in 1931, return eight days, 15 hours, 51 minutes later, having set a new round-the-world mark; seven years later Douglas Corrigan roared...
...sacred works, 13 are by such Palestrina, Victoria, Byrd, Bach and Handel; while six are from such contemporaries as Milhaud and Vaughan Williams. Of the 36 secular works, three each come from the 16th and 17th centuries, seven each from the 18th, 19th and 20th, plus nine modern arrangements of older songs...
...least a half dozen Democratic Senators, the brochure noted, are millionaires; Rhode Island's Theodore Green, Virginia's Harry Byrd, Oklahoma's Bob Kerr, New York's Herbert Lehman, Montana's Jim Murray and Missouri's Stuart Symington. Furthermore, four of the leading Democratic presidential possibilities-Symington, Adlai Stevenson, New York's Governor Averell Harriman and Michigan's Governor "Soapy" Williams-are "men of wealth...