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Nine students have been selected for the March 29 finals of the Boylston Public Speaking Contest. They are: Beeker Bradshaw '62, Peter A. Flynn '62, Virgil T. Fryman, Jr. '62, Robert W. Gordon '62, David G. Gulette '62, Lewis B. Kaden '63, Stanley F. Pickett '62, Frederik Q. Rice '63, and Phillip L. Stotter...
Lili, A Solemn Music by Disciple Virgil Thomson, and the Requiem Mass of Gabriel Faure with an authority that convinced the New York Times that "she could hold up her end of the baton with most of her male colleagues." Tactfully shrugging off this bit of male chauvinism, Mme. Boulanger refrained from repeating her response to a similar comment when she led the Boston Symphony in 1938: "I have been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment...
...Throb. Nonetheless, problems loom for A.M.C. One of the new management's first chores will be to find a replacement for Sales Vice President Virgil E. Boyd, 49, who was lured to Chrysler Corp. as vice president and general sales manager last week by a "tremendous offer I just couldn't afford to refuse." A.M.C. earnings fell from $48 million in 1960 to $23.6 million last year as spending on production facilities and merchandising was hiked to meet stiffening competition from Big3 compacts. Wall Street analysts are generally bearish about prospects for continued A.M.C. growth. Rambler, they reason...
Other recipients of citations include astronaut Virgil (Gus) Grissom; Newton N. Minow, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, and Theodore C. Sorenson, special counsel to the President. All the winners are under...
...good or ill," says Composer-Critic Virgil Thomson, "I've lived off the products and byproducts of my musical talents since I was 25." The products have included some of the best theater music (Four Saints in Three Acts and suites from Louisiana Story and The River) written in the U.S. Among the byproducts is some of the wittiest and most perceptive musical criticism. This week, at a concert of his music in Manhattan's Town Hall, Thomson celebrated his 63th birthday and 40 years of passionate proselytizing for modern music...