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...Thomson, golf, Bill Hinchcliffe, tennis, and, earlier, "Spite" Nelson, and several members of his staff of football coaches have already been notified that their contracts will not be renewed. But perhaps the greatest surprise of all was the announcement by Ogden P. Miller, athletic director, that the familiar figure of long-time favorite "Smoky Joe" Wood, will be missing from the Eli diamond next season...
...that keeps the god alive. Defiantly the man shatters the god's sacred altar, forcing the god to destroy him and, in so doing, to destroy himself. The opera had so little drama in it, such paucity of stage movement, that New York Herald Tribune Critic Virgil Thomson labeled it "a secular cantata." The music seesawed in a narrow range between lyrical sweetness and sonorous majesty, soaring but once to fervent heights. Yet the opera could not be dismissed as a flop: it was fashioned with expertness, flavored with individuality, imbued with an inner spark...
...Musicritic Virgil Thomson found a scholarly volume of radio theses* which proved, among other things, that "radio builds up a pseudo interest in music," that "popular songs are not popular because people like them, but . . . have been imposed on public taste through the very nearly 100%-efficient plugging process...
...toes may be stepped on and some popular heroes outrageously traduced, so it is hoped that all who feel moved to reply by letter will do so. The good letters will be printed in part, and often the letters constitute the most readable part of a column, as Vergil Thomson's Herald Tribune column has amply demonstrated this fall...
...first U.S. ballet troupe that ever invaded South America. Tall, truculent Lincoln Kirstein, reviving his barnstorming Ballet Caravan, had assembled a company of 52, 60 crates of scenery and costumes, a repertory of 14 ballets. On opening night, Rio saw Estacion Gasolinera (by Choregrapher Lew Christenson, Composer Virgil Thomson, Painter Paul Cadmus), which the U.S. knew as Filling Station...