Word: virgil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kentucky, triple-chinned Representative Virgil Chapman, tippling 300-lb. friend of the tobacco growers, nosed out labor-backed John Young Brown, onetime Congressman, for the Democratic senatorial nomination. In November he will oppose Republican John Sherman Cooper, who won a tradition-smashing victory in the 1946 off-year election...
...newspaper. It will appear in the fall . . . and will be housed in our new annex. If anybody asks you about this, tell him you don't know the details." Then he introduced its new publisher, who (to nobody's surprise) turned out to be ex-U.P.man Virgil Pinkley...
Joseph Stalin, it appeared (not dialectics), was really calling the pitch in Soviet music. New York Herald Tribune Musicritic Virgil Thomson quoted an ex-violinist of the Moscow State Symphony: "Anyone acquainted with the . . . 'musical mixed salad' . . . tastes of Stalin will recognize a remarkable similarity between his personal predilections and the officially sponsored concepts." What was it like to play for the boss? "If he likes a performance, he smiles . . . When a performance does not please him, [he] turns his back . . . There can be no greater blow...
...mysterious annex housed huge new presses, a topnotch photo lab, a complete city room-facilities to turn out another paper as big as the morning Times itself (circ. 400,000 daily, 800,000 Sunday). Publisher Norman Chandler had just appointed 40-year-old U.P. Vice President Virgil Pinkley, a Southern Californian with both editorial and business experience, as his "executive assistant." He had also purchased a new paper mill. And within a month, the Times had signed on 25 new staffers, was quietly organizing them into reporter-photographer teams. Stringbean-shaped U.P. man Phil Ault, who had worked with Pinkley...
...such a generally gloomy atmosphere, some speakers had little advice to offer. But one whose advice seemed to make sense was the University of Iowa's President Virgil Hancher. Said he: "Somewhere along the pathway of progress the art of contemplation has been lost. The Society of Friends, certain Roman Catholics, and an occasional mystic or band of mystics have preserved the art. They retain anchorage in a sea of ceaseless motion, of disquiet and drifting. You can make it a rule of life to withdraw each day into quiet and contemplation. You have but one life...