Word: apollo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...replaced by turbo-jets) will carry 100 passengers 5,500 miles at 250 m.p.h. cruising speed, in high-altitude (25,000 ft.) comfort with staterooms, bar, and movies in the lounge. For medium-range flights, Britain had the Vickers 4O-passenger Viscount and Armstrong Whitworth's 31-passenger Apollo, both turboprops. For feeder-lines, it had both De Havilland's reciprocating engined Dove (eight to eleven passengers) and Handley Page's 22-passenger turboprop, the Mamba Marathon.* But the star of the show at Farnborough was De Havilland's 36-passenger Comet, the first four-engined...
Steel for Henry. When Henry Kaiser fell out with Cyrus Eaton, his Kaiser-Frazer Corp. lost its big supplier of steel, Eaton's Portsmouth (Ohio) Steel Corp. To plug the gap, K-F last week paid some $3.6 million for the Phoenixville (Pa.) plant of the Phoenix-Apollo Steel Co., which has a capacity of around 26,000 tons a month of finished and semi-finished steel...
...senses. He has come to loathe most of the 19th Century romantic composers except Tchaikovsky and Beethoven, who "was such a tremendous individual." He regards Wagner and his "heroic hardware" as "shamelessly sensual." Stravinsky has taken up arms in a battle as old as art, between the followers of Apollo (art from order and religiously hard work) and Dionysus (art from ecstasy). Stravinsky has ranged himself on Apollo's team...
...tried to explain what he means: "The more art is controlled, limited, worked over, the more it is free . . . The Dionysian elements which set the imagination of the artist in motion . . . must be properly subjugated before they intoxicate us, and must finally be made to submit to the law: Apollo demands...
When asked which of his compositions he thinks will probably still be current a hundred years from now, he names Petrouchka, The Rite of Spring, The Soldier's Tale (1918) and Apollo Musagètes (1928). But he believes that his later works will also come into popularity. Early this year, after Manhattan concertgoers heard a kind of spontaneous retrospective show of the great composer's music (16 compositions in eleven concerts), few doubted him. Says Stravinsky: "I am not a kidder. I am not a tricky man. The music is there...