Word: virgil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Composer Virgil Thomson turns a hale and peppery...
...Virgil Thomson...
...skewered arrogance and stupidity in the musical establishment with a perceptive gusto unknown since the critical heyday of George Bernard Shaw. Composer Aaron Copland, his contemporary, calls him "about as original a personality as America can boast." This week, in what is far from the least of his accomplishments, Virgil Thomson turns a hale and peppery...
...Charlie Virgil, the janitor, was waiting in the parking lot for Manager John ("Bud") Grainger to arrive and open the bank. Then a man in a mask put a gun to Virgil's head and forced him into a white van crudely painted and taped to look like a Mountain Bell telephone service truck. Four gunmen warned Virgil to cooperate or they would shoot his wife. Grainger came, then David Harris, branch operations supervisor. The gunmen needed both to unlock the vault. Less than 20 minutes later the thieves had driven away with $3.3 million in cash, which...
...four who did-and who also learned Virgil's first name, Grainger's nickname and nearly every vital detail about the bank-left the van in a shopping center a mile away. Tucson police and the FBI started with nothing more than vague descriptions and a tip received five days before-not passed along to local banks-that two convicted bank robbers and murderers might have arrived from California...