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...Virgil Thomson: Music for the Films (Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Neville Marriner, conductor; Angel; $6.98). Virgil Thomson is best known for his operas Four Saints in Three Acts and The Mother of Us All. Among America's serious composers, however, he pioneered the art of writing music for films with his scores for a pair of Department of Agriculture documentaries. The Plow that Broke the Plains (1936) and The River (1937). Thomson borrowed hymns ("the doxology") and cowboy songs (The Streets of Laredo) and added his own folk-style tunes in The Plow. These two scores were Aaron Copland...
...various times, the company arranged with two other firms, Hooker Chemicals & Plastics Corp. of Niagara Falls, N.Y., and Nease Chemical Co. of State College, Pa., to produce it. Then in 1974 Allied contracted with Life Science, a new firm started by two former Allied employees, William Moore and Virgil Hundtofte, to produce the pesticide...
...admittedly, a sentimental man whose confessed fondness for Leni fuels his excavation of her past and who confesses, in a defensive way late in the narrative, that he is concerned with what Virgil called Lacrymae rerum, or the quantity of suffering/tears that is endemic to life. That is about as generalized as the Au. ever gets about his pursuit. The rest of the time he simply measures and records, indefatigably, such essentials as the number of air-raids over Germany in 1944 during which Leni found time to have intercourse with a secret Russian lover, and the number of seconds...
...binding sites on the mast cell and blocks the complete IgE molecule from attaching itself and causing an allergic reaction. Hamburger, who himself suffers from hay fever, then tested the effectiveness of his blocking agent by experimenting on himself, his wife and two daughters and a colleague, Dr. W. Virgil Brown, whom he describes as "exquisitely allergic to guinea pigs." Injecting some of Brown's blood serum under his own skin, Hamburger found that he developed a classic allergic reaction, complete with large red welts, when he exposed himself to guinea pig extract. But after he injected himself with...
...Virgil Grissom. Roger Chaffee, and Fd White...