Word: virgil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...larynx-cracking roles as the lead in Wozzeck and Rabbi Azrael in The Dybbuk; last season he gave more concerts with orchestra than any other U.S. baritone. Last week, at a time when most hard-working men were snoozing in vacation hammocks, Mack Harrell was still at it: singing Virgil Thomson's intricate new Five Songs of William Blake at Aspen...
Delayed Reaction. In Van Nuys, Calif., Ironworker Elba Virgil Norton, 32, failed to convince police, who arrested him for drunken driving, when he insisted: "I am not drunk. I'm just still shaking from the earthquake...
...Virgil M. Hancher grew up on an Iowa farm, went from the State University of Iowa to Oxford for his M.A., and eventually turned himself into a successful Chicago lawyer. But today at 55, Hancher is renowned neither as farmer nor lawyer: he is one of the top state university presidents...
...also a familiar figure far beyond his own 700 acres. Last week, when the American Council on Education wanted someone to head a new committee to study Government scientific research grants to universities ($100-150 million a year), it could think of no abler man than Virgil Hancher...
...American League Detroit Tigers, also in last place (7-19), got a boost too last week, this one from an older hand. Virgil Trucks, 33, who had failed to finish his first four 1952 starts and had not won a game all season, pitched the major leagues' first no-hitter of the year against the second-place Washington Senators...