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Dairymen hit by soaring feed costs are delighted; they will get 5? a gallon for their manure. Says Farmer Virgil Baker of Orting, Wash.: "This will save our lives. We've been operating $2,000 a month in the red-but now we could make up to $4,000 a month on manure. It seems like a fairy tale...
Fabled residents have included writers like Mark Twain and O. Henry, Thomas Wolfe and Dylan Thomas. Today the Chelsea is the permanent domain of Composer Virgil Thomson, the spot that Playwright Arthur Miller chooses to stay at when he is in town opening a new play, and the regular New York stopover for a host of luminaries from the world of art, music, film and fiction, who, along with its dozens of regular residents, prefer the funky, faded chic of the Chelsea to more contemporary quarters uptown. Perennial Chelsea guests include the entire Fonda clan, Director John Houseman and Actors...
What Carnegie did was go electronic. Last week at a gala recital presented by Concert Organist Virgil Fox, the hall showed off its newest feature-a behemoth that can growl, sing, tinkle, purr and blast in a way unmatched by any other organ. A one-of-a-kind creation built by the Rodgers Organ Co. of Hillsboro, Ore., the new instrument is the most up-to-date and expensive electronic organ in the world. Carrying a price tag of $200,000, it took 23 months to design, construct and install. The finished product fairly bulges with audio-oscillators, sine-wave...
...ever greater numbers. In Chicago, three boys with perfect timing streaked their high school as the student body rose for the morning national anthem. An adult male streaker whipped up and down the aisles of a Pan American jumbo jet en route from London to New York. Senior Citizen Virgil Cleves, 67, was arrested in Lima, Ohio, for a bare stroll in the public square with equally bare Wanda Gray, 46. He was asking equal time for "snailing," he said, since he was too old to streak. In London's House of Commons, the danger of this latest...
...electronic monster with 56 stops and 144 speakers-and opened in the Fillmore with an all-Bach recital. Surrounded by a swirl of colored lights, he swept in on the chariot of the colossal Toccata and Fugue in D Minor. "Go-o-o-o-o, Virgil!" yelled a handsome man with a bushy Afro. Replied Fox: "Sebastian Bach is delighted you are here...