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...last week's birthday concert, six surviving leaguers had written special compositions. They were performed by such topflight artists as Soprano Marjorie Lawrence and the Budapest Quartet. The small audience politely applauded the work of Boston-born Walter Piston (Quintet for Flute and Strings), Brooklyn-born Aaron Copland (Birthday Piece, On Cuban Themes For Two Pianos), French-born Darius Milhaud (string quartet), California-born Frederick Jacobi (songs about the prophet Nehemiah), Czech-born Bohuslav Martinu (Trio for Flute, Violin and Piano). Hit of the evening came at the program's close with Russian-born Louis Gruenberg...
Stolz, a stylish young boxer, was rated the No. 1 challenger for Angott's crown. But the Beau, in his first appearance as a Garden headliner, punched him off his perch. After seven rounds of piston-like pounding reminiscent of Henry Armstrong's famed windmill attack, Stolz's left eye was bleeding so badly that the referee stopped the bout, awarded a technical knockout to the little brown upstart...
...years the U.S. Navy has been praying for just such an engine. Charles Kettering's General Motors engineers answered the prayer. The engine, a two-cycle diesel, is now being produced by an Illinois factory. Most diesels are four-cycled-three out of four piston strokes serve only to charge the cylinder for the power stroke. But in the two-cycle diesel, every downstroke has an explosive push behind it. Thus the weight of the two extra cylinders can be eliminated. Two of the lighter engines can now be installed where one was formerly used, and a lot more...
...many important bits of information that one begins to wonder about his personal loyalty. He might have stated (in the words of Dr. West, the Miracle-Tuft tooth brush man): "Take good care of yourself. . . . You belong to the U. S. A."; or at least hinted that Sealed Power Piston Rings help you "Save gas. Save oil! Save engine wear...
...Just as we'd pulled alongside the dock and he'd shut off the motors, a piston cracked. The motors wouldn't have turned another time...