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Right alongside the Dodgers this week were the St. Louis Cardinals, thanks mainly to a modest young outfielder named Stan Musial, who owns the league's most sensational batting average (.381) and also leads the league in runs batted in (95), hits, runs, doubles and triples...
...wildcats, who have been making money, plausibly retort that without the cheap "air coach" rates most of their passengers would have gone by train or bus. Said strapping (6 ft. 3½ in.), cocksure Stan Weiss, president of wildcat Standard Air Lines: "The airlines are afraid of us, not because we are taking money away from them, but because the public and the Government now have something to measure them...
When the guests gathered at the Coq Rouge for cocktails, they were 80 strong. There were young members of café society whose seasonal pairings are as familiar to the public as Stan Musial's batting average. There were soubrettes who had not been heard from since Julia Marlowe played Juliet. The once-famed Duncan sisters were there. Fanny Ward, who made a living for years as "the 60-year-old flapper," was trying to look a youthful 76 in an outfit that combined a bridal gown and a Baby Snooks nightshirt...
...composers (like Harvard's Walter Piston) have taken pride in being told that their music was "stravinskyesque." Aaron Copland, best of native U.S. composers, believes that Stravinsky's continuing hold on composers "is without parallel since Wagner's day." Even Bebopper Dizzy Gillespie, and Stan Kenton, daddy of "progressive jazz," who think they have invented a new kind of music, concede generously that Stravinsky "uses some of the same sounds and rhythmical devices." The fact is that Stravinsky and jazz have learned from each other...
Weather & Orchids. For his safety record, Stan Kennedy thanks the weather (usually perfect for flying) and a heavy emphasis on maintenance, which works so smoothly that planes are often "turned around" at airports in five minutes. Moreover, his 54 pilots, most of them hand-picked war veterans headed by ex-Navy man Charles I. Elliott, know their routes as well as motormen. (One of them breaks the monotony of the same old daily run by scattering orchid seeds from his plane...