Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...July 4 party in Moscow. His Russian hosts were beginning to get the message. On hand for a Moscow film festival, the perennial pixy was soon romping and rolling his way into youngsters' hearts at the Moscow Children's Clinic and a ballet school. And at a Pioneer Camp, he left everyone limp with happy exhaustion: first, he took two kids by the hand and started slowly walking, while the others trailed dubiously behind. Then he was whooping and laughing and fast-stepping, next trotting, and finally he broke into a full gallop across the field with...
FORGOTTEN PIONEER by Harry Golden. 157 pages. World...
Partch's galloping whimsy-the very thing that has made him an admirably tireless pioneer-has also kept him a hopeless, penniless outsider all his life He conjures up such titles as Visions Fill the Eyes of a Defeated Basketball 1 earn in the Shower Room and Happy Birthday to You! (Afro-Chinese Minuet), and when he talks about his work he makes it desperately clear that he is working beyond the reach of his vocab-ary. People may smile when he sits town to play, but the trouble with his misic is less the fault of the composer...
...nothing more than hour after hour of phonograph records and a chance to dance where there is no room to breathe. Having such creatures as null Sagan, Porfirio Rubirosa and Yves Saint-Laurent under his electrified baton was excuse enough for the Pavlovian power Warfield felt, but like all pioneer artists, he was misunderstood in his time. Last week, for all his genius, he was fired on the implied charge that he was turning the Princesse into a laboratory for psy-chomusical research; he had become a power-crazed, prima donna player of the phonograph...
Died. George Malvin Holley, 85, auto pioneer who in 1902 was asked by Henry Ford to design a fuel system, produced an "iron pot" carburetor to stoke the engines of 15 million model Ts (as well as Buicks, Pierce-Arrows, Winstons), went on in 1935 to develop the fuel system for the model T of aviation, the Douglas DC-3, and built his Holley Carburetor Co. to current sales of more than $50 million annually; after a long illness; in Detroit...