Word: virgil
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Other recipients of citations include astronaut Virgil (Gus) Grissom; Newton N. Minow, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, and Theodore C. Sorenson, special counsel to the President. All the winners are under...
...good or ill," says Composer-Critic Virgil Thomson, "I've lived off the products and byproducts of my musical talents since I was 25." The products have included some of the best theater music (Four Saints in Three Acts and suites from Louisiana Story and The River) written in the U.S. Among the byproducts is some of the wittiest and most perceptive musical criticism. This week, at a concert of his music in Manhattan's Town Hall, Thomson celebrated his 63th birthday and 40 years of passionate proselytizing for modern music...
...With Chrysler Corp.'s share of the U.S. auto market once again declining (to 10% in early November), Detroiters were unsurprised when Chief Chrysler Stylist Virgil (Forward Look) Exner, 52, resigned to make room for Elwood Paul Engel, 44, who was netted in a raid on Ford's styling staff. A disciple of flamboyant ex-Ford Stylist George Walker (TIME cover, Nov. 4, 1957), New Jersey-born Designer Engel was largely responsible for the clean, squared-off 1961 Lincoln. Chrysler President Lynn Townsend, who desperately wants the same golden touch for his cars, has ordered Engel to report...
...largest builder, float down to earth on parachutes after the shoot is finished-and they gave Northrop expertise in high-altitude landing systems. The eventual result: the Northrop-built recovery system for the Mercury capsule, including its 63-ft.-wide parachute, which brought Astronauts Alan Shepard and Virgil Grissom down from space...
Like Noah. Most of the push behind industrial mobilization has been supplied by Virgil Couch. From his cluttered office in Battle Creek (soon to be transferred to Washington. D.C.), Couch has worked for the past ten years to coax big business into the civil defense program. The son of a Purchase. Ky., railroadman. Couch won prizes as a youngster for his wheat crops by carefully sifting the kernels through a fine sieve, so that only the plumpest grains remained. His efforts in industrial civil defense have been equally meticulous. One of his favorite maxims: "You've got to arrive...