Word: virgil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...murky newsprint and cloudy color pages, and bored by its stories. By Thanksgiving Day, circulation had slumped to 71,447-well below the 100,000 guarantee to advertisers. From his thriving morning Times, Owner Norman Chandler rushed over City Editor Hugh ("Bud") Lewis to give Mirror Publisher Virgil Pinkley some help...
Desirable in itself, the plan has also contributed to the achievements of former members. Randall Thompson '20, professor of Music and well-known choral composer, Virgil Thompson '24, Naumberg Professor of Music, harpsichordist Ralph Kirkpatrick '31, and composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein '39 were all active members of the Harvard club during their college years...
...opened. The rustle had been made by 17 fraudulent ballots. Investigators looked farther, found that boxes in ten other precincts had been stuffed too. Altogether, 254 phony ballots had been planted in the boxes. All but one were marked for Harry Truman and Democratic Senator Virgil Chapman (who carried the county...
...bacon?"; "How many square feet of glass have been destroyed up to date?"; "Surely you can run to a new Admiralty flag. It grieves me to see the present dingy object every morning." And, as a final touch to the whole figure, there is the Churchill whose mind remembers Virgil when a bomb strikes London's Carlton Club, rendezvous of generations of Conservative politicians. Writes Churchill: "Mr. Quentin Hogg . . . carried his father, a former Lord Chancellor, on his shoulders from the wreck, as Aeneas had borne Pater Anchises from the ruins of Troy...
Downes: "... a first-class Hoffmann . . ." Said the Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson: ". . . stage sense . . . musical intelligence and (of all things!) an instinct for expressive coloration . . . maybe we have a real artist around...