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...hired James C. Thomson, lecturer on History and a member of the East Asian Studies Research Center, as a special China expert during Nixon's upcoming visit to China. He will appear on a television special scheduled for February 19 at 10:30 p.m., and on the twice-daily reports which ABC will run during Nixon's visit...
Other faculty members on the guest list for the dinner included Paul Dot. Mallinckrodt Professor of Biochemistry, Samuel Huntington, Thomson Professor of Government, and Don K. Price, Dean of the Kennedy School of Government. The dinner has not yet been rescheduled
...Virgil Thomson is the only man In the world who can keep me up until four in the morning." The late Sir Thomas Beecham's remark was a tribute to the fact that Thomson, one of the foremost U.S. composers, composes sentences just as brilliantly as he does music. He has been as familiar to the music public for his books (The State of Music) and his distinguished music reviews in the New York Herald Tribune (1940-54) as for works like the opera Four Saints in Three Acts or the film score for Louisiana Story, Whether in words...
...series of performances of his music (highlighted the week before when the Philadelphia Orchestra played Three Pictures for Orchestra in Philadelphia and New York). There was also a conversation with TIME Music Critic William Bender which, although it did not last until four in the morning, showed that Thomson has lost none of the old Virgilian knack...
...York Giants. For decades the very name was one for opponents in two sports to reckon with, a source of joy (and sometimes sorrow) to New York's football and baseball fans. Who can forget the little miracle of Coogan's Bluff, when Bobby Thomson's ninth-inning home run in the old Polo Grounds beat the hated Dodgers in a 1951 play-off and won for the baseball Giants an impossible pennant? Or the frigid December day in 1934 when the football Giants, playing on a frozen field, switched from spikes to sneakers at halftime...