Word: thomson
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...guru to such American composers as Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland and Virgil Thomson was correct about Schuyler Chapin. She was also right when she suggested that he might do well in music management. Chapin became road manager for Violinist Jascha Heifetz. He held Vladimir Horowitz's hand when the volatile pianist returned to the recording studios in 1962, and to the concert stage in 1965. For three turbulent years he occupied the most prestigious chair in opera, general manager of the Metropolitan...
Before the government placed a fiveyear banning order on him, Woods was the editor of the East London Daily Dispatch. However, he made more impact through a nationally syndicated column, in which he regularly criticized the apartheid system, Thomson said...
Percy Qoboza, editor of South Africa's largest black newspaper and a former Nieman fellow, is still in jail in South Africa, Thomson said...
...Thomson said Qoboza, who was detained in the same government crackdown in which Woods was banned, is apparently in good physical condition...
...waiting in the on-deck circle in 1951 when the New York Giants' Bobby Thomson hit the "shot heard 'round the world"? Willie Mays. Name three men who hit .400 three times in their careers...