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...Pioneer Sexologist Havelock Ellis...
...seemed heavy, it was because he was concerned with the body as a solid, three-dimensional object in a particular setting. Abstractions, landscapes, the figure-every painting had its internal architecture. Gradually the critics came round to seeing Weber not only as a brilliant eclectic but also as a pioneer whose work, as Critic Lloyd Goodrich said in 1949, "places him among the pioneers of abstract art not only in America but anywhere." In 1930, when the new Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan gave him a large retrospective show, he was the first living American to be so honored...
...supersonic corridor near Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., at twice the speed of sound. Toni, a Pasadena high school senior and very likely the world's fastest teenager, held a pace of 1,325-1,350 m.p.h., with Dad as her copilot-and Dad is Supersonic Flight Pioneer A. W. ("Tony") LeVier, 50, now Lockheed-California's director of flying operations. With another father-daughter stunt in the offing, a cross-country flight to Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Toni nevertheless talks like a girl whose aims are thoroughly down-to-earth. "I want to get my private...
...earlier pioneer in what may prove to be a nocturnal trend is Los Angeles' KTTV, which inaugurated its "All Night Show" six months ago. Featuring films from the MGM backlog, the program includes guest visits from local bigs and wellwishers like Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bishop and Shelley Berman, who drop in after their own late shows if they are working at local nightclubs. The station estimates that its audience has grown to nearly half a million. "We have no ratings," says KTTV, "because no one dares call at that time of night...
...system. At his irrepressible insistence, Harvard's diffuse studies of language were forged into a vigorous Department of Comparative Philology (the name became "Department of Linguistics" in 1951 to conform to current usage). His relentless emphasis on statistical method in the analysis of language has enabled this department to pioneer the new mathematical approach to language that now promises to bring order into the thoroughly confirmed field of linguistics. In addition, Whatmough's outspokenness, and his unimpeachable sense of style make him a consistently fascinating person...