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...State Department Officer John Limbert. Last month, 47 of the hostage families endorsed a letter sent to Carter threatening to protest if he allowed the Shah back into the U.S. for medical care. Some families feel that the President's moves against Iran should have begun earlier. Said Virgil Sickmann, whose son Rodney was a Marine guard at the embassy: "I wish the President had taken these actions two months sooner. If he had done it then, I think that by this time Iran would have become a little weakened." Added Mary Needham, whose son Paul...
...radio's Chesterfield Hour. After making the program a hit, he added to his celebrity by marrying Opera Diva Lily Pons in 1938 (they divorced in 1958) and by cutting more than 200 discs with Columbia (life time record sales: 52 million). He commissioned works by Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson and other Americans that became repertory standards. And while he would outrage purists by making a medley of a Tchaikovsky movement and a pop tune, "Kosty" had his reasons: "Criticism is upsetting, but if what I do expands the meaning of music in terms of attendance, that...
...Virgil Thomson--composer; at Harvard Coop...
Dinosaur Annex--works of Thomson, Cage and Satie; First and Second Church, 66 Marlborough St., Boston, 8 p.m.; speech by Virgil Thomson...
Turning 83, famed American Composer-Critic Virgil Thomson proved to be as vivace as the music he has written for every mode from concert hall to films over half a century. Tendered a birthday party at Brentano's bookstore in Manhattan, Thomson ignored the limousine that had been sent to fetch him from his apartment in the fin de siècle Chelsea Hotel and marched to the festivities on his own. He also chose stairs instead of an elevator and a hard chair rather than a soft one, but he did consent to pose at the piano with...