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...Columbia University's Alice M. Ditson Fund has commissioned and premiered Menotti's The Medium, Virgil Thomson's Mother of Us All, symphonies by Roger Sessions, Walter Piston and Randall Thompson...
...deal with Lockheed for 1957 delivery of 25 new 1449-model Constellations fitted with four 5,500-h.p. Pratt & Whitney T34 turboprop engines. New plane is designed to carry up to 99 passengers, cruise nonstop across the U.S. at more than 425 m.p.h., about 60 m.p.h. faster than current piston-engined...
...hangars, three more Viscounts are nearing completion, the first of a Go-plane, $67 million order for Capital Airlines, the first U.S. airline to switch from piston to turbine power and the first in history to buy anything but U.S. planes. With American Airlines, biggest U.S. line, shopping around for replacements for its 77-plane fleet of two-engine Convairs, U.S. planemakers will have to scramble to keep Vickers from making an even bigger dent in the short-haul airliner market. All told, the world's airlines have ordered 177 Viscounts, and many of the new planes will replace...
...Vickerland. To Britons, Vickers' new Viscount is soothing balm after the blows to their prestige from the De Havilland Comet crashes. British aviation experts make the point that wherever Viscounts have flown on trunk (under 1,000 mile) routes, the turboprop planes have proved tough competition for piston-engined U.S. transports. Their four 1,400-h.p. Rolls Royce jet engines, hooked to propellers, not only make them about 35 m.p.h. faster than competing Convairs, but also much quieter and smoother riding. (British European Airways passenger traffic has gone up about 26% since switching to Viscounts from...
...first place in the western division, and given a good chance to win the east-west playoffs, are the red-hot Fort Wayne Pistons, who at week's end led both divisions with a .773 percentage and had won nine of their last ten games. The Pistons' owner, Fred Zollner, a millionaire piston manufacturer, has spent gobs of money for playing talent, including Captain Andy Phillip, a backcourt ace, and for his coach this year hired Charley Eckman, an N.B.A. referee with no previous coaching experience. On the bench. Novice Coach Eckman comports himself like a cross between...