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From the time he heard his first concert in Philadelphia at the age of twelve, Virginian Dick Bales knew he wanted to be a conductor. After high school he went to Rochester's Eastman School of Music. In 1940, after he had toured with a WPA orchestra and studied on a Juilliard fellowship, Serge Koussevitzky picked him as one of five outstanding young U.S. conductors, packed him off to the new Berkshire Music Center for private instruction...
...agreed to try, at a salary of $1,500 a year ("if that sum can be raised"). He started the schools of law, commerce and engineering, raised enrollments from 97 to 410. After he died, five years later, the college bracketed his name with that of the first great Virginian; the school became Washington and Lee University...
...long seemed to be all right-even profitable-to use much gamier words, including blasphemy and obscenity, in U.S. novels. "Son-of-a-bitch" had quite a literary past, going back at least to Shakespeare (in King Lear). Owen Wister sounded it more discreetly in The Virginian (1902), where it was cloaked as "son-of-a -." The Virginian's ringing retort was well remembered: "When you call me that, smile." The only question was: Was it quite the proper phrase for the President to use in public, with or without smiling...
...Three Southern papers-the Charlotte (N.C.) News, the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, and the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Independent -endorsed a Republican candidate for the first time in their history. The independent Milwaukee Journal, which supported Willkie in 1940 and no one in 1944, came out for Dewey...
...Love, but Justice. The young Washington that Freeman has exhumed will give many a superpatriot the twitches. Freeman knows that his portrait of a proud and selfseeking Virginian has ruthlessly kicked Washington, the Eagle Scout who could not tell a lie, off his pedestal for keeps. Most men of Washington's rank, writes Freeman, "considered him ambitious and not particularly likable or conspicuously able . . ." Washington's favorite disciplinarian was the cat-o'-nine-tails: 25 lashes for profanity, 100 for drunkenness. His letters to superiors were often fawning, too prone to dwell on his own belief that...