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Fodder by Duco. In Waukomis, Okla., Fanner Virgil Beard collected $75 from his insurance company to get his car repainted after the original coat was licked off by his 25 cows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 17, 1952 | 3/17/1952 | See Source »

...Balanchine's 73rd ballet was a smash success, his 74th two nights later was as close to an unqualified flop as Balanchine ever comes. Bayou, danced to a thin and repetitious suite from Composer-Critic Virgil Thomson's Louisiana Story film score, was simply not Classicist Balanchine's meat. His adventure in Americana was little more than tired cliche...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sound Ballet | 3/3/1952 | See Source »

...VIRGIL P. POWNALL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 11, 1952 | 2/11/1952 | See Source »

...WILD, WILD WOMEN - Virgil Partch-Duell, Sloan & Pearce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wonderful & Weird | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

...Operation. Nutty as a fruit cake to all but his ardent fans is Virgil Franklin Partch II (pen name: VIP). Even when seen, a Partch cartoon can hardly be believed. "Guess Who," reads the caption under a domestic scene in which the not-so-little woman has sneaked up on her man from behind and blindfolded him with her bosom. Now 35, Partch has already drawn a man with as many as 19 fingers; he stamps out ugly, proboscidian heads as though he had gone berserk with a giant cookie-cutter. His special bugaboo: meeting his public. "They expect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wonderful & Weird | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

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