Word: virgil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Elected in 1946 to fill the unexpired term (two years) of A. B. ("Happy") Chandler, who resigned to become U.S. Commissioner of Baseball; defeated in 1948 by Virgil Chapman; elected in 1952 to fill the unexpired term (two years) after Chapman died; defeated in 1954 by Alben Barkley...
...Year Setback. The prediction came true. Last month Police Commissioner Timothy O'Connor ordered the Scotland Yard office to cease work immediately, had it padlocked and guarded round the clock, reassigned the unit's officers. Complained Chicago's Crime Commission Director Virgil Peterson: "Now the police department is back where it was ten years ago as far as hoodlums are concerned...
...sing of arms and the man," wrote Virgil rather pointedly in The Aeneid. It remained for World War II to spawn the bards of basic training camps, staging areas, supply depots and paper-shuffling rear echelons. These latter-day laureates all agree that war gets funnier and funnier in direct proportion to its distance from the firing line, and sometimes prove it, e.g., See Here, Private Hargrove, Mister Roberts, No Time for Sergeants. Though it works harder for its laughs and gets fewer of them, Don't Go Near the Water may enjoy a like success. A Book...
...works that have reached Europe through other groups have for the most part been of inferior quality. Woodworth wants to show Europe that this country is producing fine choral music of real substance and value. So he is scheduling works by such well-known names as Randall Thompson '20, Virgil Thompson '22 and Irving Fine '37, along with pieces by little known but talented men like Henry Leland Clarke '28, Karl Kohn '48 and Russell Woollen...
This fall, the boon was on! Eliot House announced the formation of its Drama Group to produce plays meeting the demand for an "intimate theatre;" Adams House went beyond the traditional scope of House productions to present Alcestis in Sanders Theatre and its Music Society gave Virgil Thomson and Gertrude Stein's opera The Mother of Us All. The Eliot group gave three productions this year, The Tempest, Richard II, and The Merchant of Venice, all of which were very favorably received...