Word: virgil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beethoven at Last. To Virgil Thomson, critic of the New York Herald Tribune, who devoted three tart Sunday columns to the subject, the biggest audience in the U.S. is getting very poor service indeed. He had a flock of letters from readers telling him, "How right you are!" Both Ward French, president of Community, and Marks Levine, board chairman of Civic, were ready to tell him how wrong...
...benefit of his Herald Tribune readers, Virgil Thomson once described the Philadelphia Orchestra's tone as "smooth as a seashell, iridescent as fine rain, bright as the taste of a peach." These Thomson similes make a succinct description of his own writing. "Music Right and Left" is the third collection of his reviews, covering from 1947 through half of 1950, and ranging in content from Bach to Pravda. Each review is a slick, colorful, brightly polished little essay; the polish is all the more remarkable since each review was written in about an hour...
...When Virgil Chapman moved up to the U.S. Senate in 1948, the man who stepped into his old seat as Congressman from Kentucky's Bluegrass sixth district was Thomas R. Underwood, 53, a husky, bushy-haired newspaper editor (the Lexington Herald) and amiable, self-effacing member of Kentucky's ruling Democratic Big Five. Last week Tom Underwood stepped up to replace Chapman once again. Nine days after Virgil Chapman's death as a result of a Washington automobile accident (TiME, March 19), Congressman Underwood was named to fill the Senate vacancy...
...Died. Virgil Munday Chapman, 55, Democratic Senator from Kentucky since 1949, for 22 years before that a Representative from Kentucky's Bourbon County, who generally voted with the Administration on foreign issues, against it on domestic ones; after a motor collision with a truck; in Bethesda...
...Washington Administration supporters expressed surprise at the speed and smoothness with which Senators Richard Russell and Lyndon Johnson of the Armed Services Committee handled the bill. It was all the more amazing, he felt, considering the death of Senator Virgil Chapman, the day before he was scheduled to lead debate in favor of the proposal. There are jokers, however, in this bill and in the House measure, that the Defense Department and strong backers of UMST would like to see removed. Further articles in this series will discuss the Draft bills in detail, and the second type of major struggle...