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...Jersey's Teterboro Air Terminal, just six miles across the Hudson River from Grant's Tomb, there was a lot of hustle-bustle last week. Lanky young pilots, many in their old Army flying jackets, darted about the coveys of DC-3 freighters and the smaller Piper Cubs, Cessnas and Beechcrafts scattered around the field. Steamrollers were snorting away, lengthening the landing strips to 4,500 feet. In a corner of the field, handlers coaxed a horse into a freight plane. Regularly, every minute or so, a plane took off or landed...
Vindictive. In Toronto, Conductor Sir Ernest MacMillan rummaged through some old scores, found that rats had chewed up one: The Pied Piper of Hamelin...
Although many a planemaker (including Piper, Cessna, Republic) denied it, the stockmarket decline and the slump in the luxury market had cut sales. Those who did admit it usually put the blame chiefly on lack of sufficient airports to take light planes out of the luxury class...
...pipers solemnly paced and danced about the stage as they piped marches and piobaireachds, a kind of wailing dirge which sounds like the cries of caged animals. Said Archibald Campbell: "We purists are passionately devoted to the piobaireachd." When the last piper had piped, one of the judges complained of a cramp and was heard to mutter: "Och, it's a terrible long business, terrible long." Another admitted to "a little pressure around the temples." The judges sadly agreed that the war years had not improved the quality of the pipers...
Columbia Workshop (Sun. 4 p.m., CBS). "Pied Piper of Hamelin"; script & score written by Bandleader Artie Shaw, who also conducts the 38-piece orchestra...