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Died. Ormond E. Hunt, 83, auto engineer, who in 1923 designed the first General Motors Chevrolet to compete successfully with Ford's Model T, incorporating such features as automatic windshield wipers, an electric horn and a longer, more stylish body, was duly awarded a vice-presidency by Alfred P. Sloan Jr., and continued to serve G.M. as a company director and technical troubleshooter, most notably during World War II, when he played a major role in converting auto production lines to tanks, trucks and planes; of cancer; in Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit...
...colors turn out grey. I see the American ethnic groups as a huge symphony orchestra in which each instrument retains its own characteristics, makes its particular contribution and, together with the other instruments, creates a wonderful or a terrible sound. Surely, to achieve a good sound, a French horn does not become a violin, nor does a piccolo turn into a kettledrum; rather, each strives harder to play in harmony with the others...
...nephew of Canaletto. A court painter from 1767 to 1780, he used a camera obscura to obtain perfect perspectives for his city scapes. After the destruction of Warsaw during World War II, his paintings were so accurate that they were used to reconstruct demolished monuments and buildings. The horn of the Wieliczka salt miners, made in 1534 from a bison that roamed Central Europe, celebrates a mine dating back to prehistoric times. Offered in the king's name by the mine-owner to his well-organized craft guild, its backbreaking gesture seemingly turns their burdens into the symbol...
...Birds. Elsewhere in the U.S., lady musicians are having a heyday. The Cleveland Orchestra now has 11, the San Francisco 17, the Houston 25 and the American Symphony 44. Trombonist Betty Glover, 43, adds class to the brass of the Cincinnati Symphony; Helen Taylor, 24, plays a mean English horn for the Houston Symphony. The rare bird in the Los Angeles aviary is Barbara Winters, 28, who, to produce the needed penetrating sounds from her oboe, must pit her trim 120 lbs. against male fellow oboists who average a burly-chested 200 Ibs. To maintain the exceptional breath control necessary...
...ability to hold on to such maverick clients as Hallmark Cards' Joyce Hall became legendary. Publicly, Cone emerged as the most respected scold of the industry. He once scourged the "tasteless people" in advertising as the "miserable, crawly two or three per cent who represent the advertising horn of our dilemma...