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DIED. Roy Harris, 81, prolific composer often called "the Walt Whitman of American music"; after several strokes; in Santa Monica, Calif. The big, rawboned musical pioneer was born in a log cabin, perhaps appropriately, on Lincoln's birthday in Lincoln County, Okla. In the late 1920s he studied classical composition under Nadia Boulanger in Paris. But his vigorous rhythms and clean melodic lines were more reflective of the open spaces and the expansive optimism of his native land than of Europe. "America," he said, "is the richest, strongest, best fed of countries. Why should our composers produce fussy little...
...died seven years ago at 75. The business prospered largely on the strength of its butter-rich, multiflavored ice cream (calorie count: 160 for a rounded scoop of chocolate chip). Eager to expand but unable to raise much cash during the Depression, Johnson in the early 1930s became a pioneer in the practice of franchising (though today the company owns some 75% of its restaurants). Later the firm plunged into motor lodges, three-quarters of which are franchised...
...successors have been revealing, Pilgrim was positively coy. One pose, reproduced at the party, shows her wearing only a white fur stole but exposing little more than cleavage. Pilgrim's progress has been pretty good: now 45 and the mother of two teenage girls, Hefner's pioneer pinup is still as pretty as her picture. · At $500,000 the mansion was a doubtful bargain, even with 26 rooms, 1.7 acres and a prime location in Long Island's haute summer town of East Hampton. And even with its notorious cachet as Grey Gardens, squalid home...
...week's end Pioneer was already millions of miles beyond Saturn. Its systems, sustained by a tiny nuclear power source, were still operating; but other than to record an occasional micrometeorite hit, there was little for Pioneer to do. Yet the little spaceship is destined for even greater adventures. Some time in 1993, Pioneer will pass beyond Pluto, leave the solar system and head for the stars...
Soviet Poet Yevgeni Yevtushenko has turned to that most blatantly capitalistic of occupations, making movies. He stars in Take-Off, a film about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, celebrated by the Soviets as a pioneer of space travel. One Moscow critic called Yevgeni's performance patchy. Nevertheless, Yevtushenko gushed that playing the rocket man "left a tremendous imprint on my own destiny." It was tough, declared Moscow's Establishment poet, to play someone "far more interesting, better and more important than I am. I had to concentrate all my inner resources, find everything good in my soul...