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...Columbia University's Alice M. Ditson Fund has commissioned and premiered Menotti's The Medium, Virgil Thomson's Mother of Us All, symphonies by Roger Sessions, Walter Piston and Randall Thompson...
Shortage. In Kansas City, Mo., Motorist Walter Virgil Stone, after ramming another car, admitted that something was wrong with his own car, was charged by police with driving without driver's license, registration, city tag, headlights and adequate brakes...
NORTH TO DANGER, by Virgil Burford as told to Walt Morey (254 pp.; John Day $3.75) makes a fine companion piece to Scott's elephant adventure. Diver Burford spent years in Alaska, mostly pirating salmon from cannery-owned traps or diving to the ocean floor to mend the same traps -amidst sharks and 20-foot octopuses. Once Burford was manning the airline on board ship when another diver in the water below rashly tried to spear an octopus. A hairy tentacle shot out, and for three hours the diver (Scotty Evans by name) was caught 70 feet down...
Congratulations on your wonderful coverage of a wonderful university in your Sept. 6 issue. Alumni of the State University of Iowa are justifiably proud of its fine record as well as that of its president, Virgil Hancher, and it was with a tremendous thrill that we read your article...
...Need to Worry. Today, under mild-mannered President Virgil Rancher, the university's 8,200 students follow their pursuit of culture with the same openhandedness. Though S.U.I, must by law take in all applicants, it needs to worry very little about the quality of its students. For one thing, Iowa itself is the most literate state in the union (i.e., has the lowest percentage-3.9%-of illiterates), and those of its citizens who want only a practical education are either drained off to Iowa State College in Ames, or simply stay down on the farm. S.U.I, is thoroughly committed...