Word: virgil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
Lonely Man. School was the same. Manhattan's Ethical Culture Schools tried to find a moral equivalent for religion (credo: "Deed, not Creed") and went in for the production of quiz kids. By the time he graduated, Robert could read Caesar, Virgil and Horace without a Latin dictionary, had read Plato and Homer in the Greek, composed sonnets in French, and tackled treatises on polarized light...
Besides these three coups, Democrats won all the races that were figured as "close." In Minnesota, Hubert Humphrey walloped Senator Joe Ball; Conservative Democrats Virgil Chapman and Guy Gillette defeated GOP incumbents in Kentucky and Iowa, respectively; and Robert Kerr easily out-distanced Ross Rizley in Oklahoma...
...states--Iowa and Wyoming--the Republicans are perspiring freely in efforts to maintain the status quo, but in four others, they are more secure. Kentucky's John Sherman Cooper has enough popularity with independents to offset the advantage his rival, Virgil Chapman, will have in Barkley's candidacy. Homer Ferguson in Michigan, and Curley Brooks in Illinois are two GOP veterans who can reasonably expect to return to Washington, while in Oklahoma neither Republican Rizley nor Democrat Kerr can claim much advantage...
Publisher Virgil Pinkley and his boss, Times Publisher Norman Chandler, preferred not to raid staffs of papers like the New York Daily News to get tabloid know-how for the jazzy paper they hoped to put out. Instead, they picked up local talent; for a city editor they got florid Ralph ("Casey") Shawhan, an ex-Hearstling who knew the town well but had turned to movie pressagentry five years...