Word: daniels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...score was by an old hand at setting Stein to song, Composer-Critic Virgil Thomson, who wrote the music for Gertrude's Four Saints in Three Acts. Since the business on stage (involving among others Ulysses S. Grant, Thaddeus Stevens, Daniel Webster and an angel) was pretty complicated, Thomson kept his music harmonically simple, rarely dissonant and sometimes hymnlike, and his adroit handling of the voices added some new inflections to Steinese...
Scientists first heard of verruga in 1870, during the building of the Central Railway, when 7,000 workers died before the rails had been pushed out of the valley. The first investigator of the disease was a medical student named Daniel A. Carrión, now a Peruvian national hero, who died after inoculating himself with serum from a patient's wart. Verruga is still something of a medical mystery. Nobody has ever found out how the sandfly acquires its parasite, where it lays its eggs, why it seems to have thrived only in one narrow area. Doctors have...
Samuel Barber: Capricorn Concerto (Saidehberg Little Symphony, Daniel Saidenberg conducting; Concert Hall Society, 4 sides). Scored in Bach's concerto grosso style for flute, oboe and trumpet solo plus strings, it smacks more of Stravinsky than Bach, has a sensuous eeriness typical of some of Barber's later works...
...Daniel J. Tobin, head of the AFL teamsters, promised the strikers a check for $10,000 every two weeks that the walkout continues. He delivered the first check personally today...
...Frederic D. Houghteling '50, George B. Pomeroy '49, John A. Snyder '46, and Edric A. Weld, Jr. '46, while Winthrop named F. Richard Anderson '45, Carlos A. Arosemena '49, John P. Chandler '48, Robert A. Cunningham '46, Gerard H. Fisher '49, William J. Richard, Jr. '49, E. W. Daniel Stevens '48, and George B. Stevenson...