Word: virgil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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RANGER MOSBY-Virgil Carrington Jones-University of North Carolina Press...
...Virgil Franklin Partch 2nd became a cartoonist because he wanted to make a living sitting down. Last week, 28-year-old Cartoonist Partch (pen name: VIP) was sitting pretty. He was a regular Collier's contributor of two years' standing, he had a fat commercial advertising contract, and his first book of comic drawings, It's Hot in Here (McBride; $1) was selling fast in U.S. bookstores...
...Here is a thin (80-page), close-cropped (5-by-7-in.) book of ferocious, slapstick, sometimes disturbing gag-drawings plus a short introduction by Magazine Writer Kyle (Redder Than the Rose) Crichton. "Virgil Partch is nuts," writes Crichton, ". . . but nuts in a nice American way." Partch fans found little that was Nelly-nice, less that was especially American. But they did find a fresh-cartoon humor, based on a slambang, explosive brand of fantasy. Example...
Reluctant Success. "You are sitting before a man who is utterly devoid of ambition," Virgil Partch once told an admiring visitor. But three years ago, Hollywooder Partch found himself trying to support his wife and child on $18 weekly unemployment relief checks. He had taken part in a strike at the Walt Disney Studios. Eighteen-dollar boredom finally prompted Partch to send a batch of cartoons to Collier's Cartoon Editor Gurney Williams...
...last week's meeting, one of the top-ranking U.S. classicists, Princeton University's young Choirmaster Carl Weinrich, who at Princeton University's Chapel plays an $18,000 modern organ as if it were Bach-type, offered modern organ compositions by Virgil Thomson, Roger Sessions, Walter Piston...