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Allen D. Sapp '42, Teaching Fellow in Music, arranged for the composition, and recording of the music. Included in the record was a Dryden ode, set to music by Sapp and performed by the University of California chorus under Edward B. Lawton '34 and "Kyrie" by Virgil G. Thomson '22, performed by Fiske University under Harry E. von Bergen...
...however, business began to go slack. One evening last week, the partners climbed into a new demonstrator and headed north to discuss financing with a Portland bank. They finished the 100-mile journey, registered at a tourist camp, ate a steak dinner and dropped in at a nightclub. Then Thomson announced that the company records, which they had thrust into the dashboard compartment of the car, were missing. At his insistence, they made a long night drive back to Newport, got duplicates, and then, just as dawn was breaking, headed for Portland again-and for violence at Cape Foulweather...
...Meuler staggered from the car, Thomson came after him. For a few seconds they fought wildly at the edge of the precipice. Suddenly Thomson backed off. He was sorry, he said . . . terribly sorry ... He wanted to get Meuler to a doctor . . . Meuler nodded in stunned relief. With Thomson hovering sympathetically by, he took off his shirt and wrapped it around his broken head to keep blood off the demonstrator's upholstery. He got into the car. Thomson slid behind the wheel, drove a few hundred yards north. Then, at a point where there was no guard rail, he turned...
...went over, Thomson leaped. He landed 50 feet below the lip of the road and watched the car with Meuler in it go somersaulting end over end down a steep, brushy, 100-yard slope. Below that, sheer cliffs fell away to the sea. But just before the car cleared the edge, Meuler was flung out. He was horribly hurt-one leg, a hip and his back were broken, his face was torn and his scalp split-but he rose, fell, rose again. Thomson scrambled downhill toward him and put a tourniquet on his bleeding leg. He took off his pants...
...hours he was a hero. Attendants at Newport's Pacific Communities Hospital felt that he might well have saved Meuler's life. But State Police Sergeant William Colbert was not so sure. Though Thomson insisted that the demonstrator's front wheels had locked, the cops could find no skid marks at the highway's edge. Next day Thomson changed his story, said that he had gone to sleep at the wheel. "Dick," said the sergeant, "why don't you get it all off your chest?" Dick calmly accommodated him. He signed a five-page confession...