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...Resigned from the A.F. of M. in a huff...
...Kitty Hawk, famed first "aeroplane" of the Wright Brothers, might end up in the Smithsonian Institution after all. Twenty years ago, in a huff at the Smithsonian, Inventor Orville Wright gave the Kitty Hawk to London's Science Museum. Last week Wright's executors dug up a 1943 letter telling the British that he wanted it back. Any time, said the British...
...backed the Chicago Symphony were good & mad at temperamental Artur Rodzinski; he had become a dissonance that wouldn't resolve. When he quit the New York Philharmonic in a huff last year (TIME, Feb. 17) he had exulted: "Since 21 years, Chicago is my goal." But once he had reached his goal, said the Chicago trustees, he had not only consistently played hooky, but he had caused confusion and expense in rehearsals with last-minute changes of program. The estimated deficit thus...
...most tumbledown eyesore: in Manhattan. Owner of a vast real-estate fortune, which she managed in a cubbyhole office from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m., Mrs. Coogan had sulked in seclusion in a hotel suite for 32 years. She walked out of Whitehall in 1910 (in a huff, according to Society legend, after giving a big party which Society boycotted), never returned, refused to sell the place, just let it stand there rotting for 30-odd years...
Even an ostensibly harmless action like the choice of Beirut, Lebanon, for next year's UNESCO conference, was an occasion of friction. Polish Delegate Jan Drohojowski, who had walked in & out of the conference in a constant huff, saw a last-minute chance for what he considered a crack at the U.S. He said he hoped that next year the delegates, "especially when they visit the neighboring Holy Land, will obey the Ten Commandments and not bow down to the Golden Calf...