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...employees and heady plans to build an aircraft engine called the Wasp. A high-performance engine for those days, the 425-h.p. Wasp was an immediate success and helped finance the founding of United. United at one time or another pulled under its wing Bill Boeing, Chance Vought and Igor Sikorsky, also gave birth to the now independent United Air Lines. Horner grew along with the company, masterminding Pratt & Whitney's World War II production of half the power (600 million h.p.) used in U.S. war planes. He became president of the entire company in 1943, after...
Atonality for Children. Within a decade of his death, Webern's music was enthusiastically taken up not only by established masters like Igor Stravinsky but also by a whole generation of postwar avantgardists, particularly in Europe. Now the question that remains for the future is how well it will stand up in its own right. "His influence," suggests U.S. Composer Aaron Copland, "may turn out to be far greater than the intrinsic value of his music, which may some day seem too mannered in style and too limited in scope." Webern himself did not think so. "In fifty years...
Crooks also announced Wednesday that composer Igor Stravinsky will be in Cambridge for the summer...
...realism"-meaning that abstract dancing is out. "And we do not share the opinion of some ballet lovers who approve of the sexual direction that ballet has taken," added Mrs. Furtseva. "When you see sexual figures on the stage, it is unpleasant." That was too much for Contest Chairman Igor Moiseyev, director of the Bolshoi Ballet and the Moiseyev dance ensemble. "Sex," he bridled, "is not abstract." As newsmen roared their approval, Mrs. Furtseva glared: "I don't entirely agree with you." Coming from an official, those are ominous words in today's Russia...
...long jump has been the exclusive bag of two men for so long that the event could have been called "The Ralph & Igor Show." Between them since 1960, the U.S.'s Ralph Boston, 28, and Russia's Igor Ter-Ovanesyan, 29, have broken and rebroken the world indoor and outdoor records eleven times, won four Olympic medals and dominated every meet they entered. So imagine the impertinence when a slender, 21-year-old sophomore from the University of Texas at El Paso swiped all the action from his elders...