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ROUND-THE-WORLD JET service was started by Pan American with new long-range Boeing 707 Intercontinentals. Jet flying time from New York around the world to Los Angeles will be about 38 hours v. 66 hours on piston-engine planes. Actual elapsed time will be just over two days v. seven days when globe-girdling air service was started...
Walter H. Piston '24, Walter W. Naumburg Professor of Music, announced yesterday that he will retire from teaching at the end of the academic year. Piston said he considers himself primarily a composer and will devote his full time to that upon retirement...
After graduating Summa Cum Laude, he began teaching at the University in 1928. Piston became an associate professor in 1938 and a full professor in 1944. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in music in 1948, and is the author of Harmony, Counterpoint, and Orchestra...
...Piston now teaches graduate seminars in composition and 20th century music, and is known as the "dean" of the country's composition teachers. Piston is currently finishing a two-piano concerto. His Viola Concerto recently won an award as the best new orchestral work performed in New York during the season...
...international airlines enter the Jet Age, the U.S. is junking a belief as outdated as its piston planes. The belief was that U.S. flag carriers could hold their lead over a growing flock of aggressive foreign competitors without a drastic change in U.S. air policy. Last week the U.S. airlines got a new warning of the onward march of foreign competition. From the State Department came an announcement that Air France will get an additional U.S. gateway at Baltimore and a polar route to the U.S. West Coast. BOAC will get the right to land at Tokyo...