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From the money usually spent on soloists, the Philharmonic's smart Conductor Robert Whitney, urged on by Mayor Charles P. Farnsley, commissioned six new ten-minute works for $500 each by Virgil Thomson, Darius Milhaud, Roy Harris, Italy's Gian Francesco Malipiero, Spain's blind Joaquin Rodrigo, Louisville's own Claude Almand. Four of the composers were promised another $500 apiece for conducting their own world premieres...
...Thomson: Four Saints in Three Acts (soloists, chorus and orchestra conducted by Virgil Thomson; Victor, 10 sides). A condensed version of the Virgil Thomson-Gertrude Stein collaboration. Amusing the first time around, but hardly worth repeated playings. Performance and recording: good...
...national committee's decision to oust the suspended chapters. These were: Stanley G. Karson '48, Roy Gootenberg '50, Eastman Birkett 3L, Richard W. Lyman 1G, Andrew B. Rice 2G, Reginald H. Zalles 4G, George D. Dysart 3L, and Robert Kuble '50. Leon M. Waks 3L and Charles S. Thomson 2L voted for the seating...
Robert sailed for England and another apprenticeship, this time under Lord Rutherford and Sir J. J. Thomson at Cambridge University. Before he left, Bridgman told him: "You cannot be satisfied with just measuring up with other people. You can consider yourself a failure unless you stand out in front...
Driver's Seat. Yearly sales of Loewy-designed products now exceed $1 billion. Loewy's own gross runs between $2,500,000 and $3,000,000. His net, which he shares with five partners, including his good friend and ex-wife Virginia Thomson Loewy, is a secret, but Loewy manages to keep up two French chateaux, a Park Avenue apartment, a Long Island estate and a California desert hideaway. He likes to buy new limousines and restyle them to his own exacting taste...