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...head of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, the 26 year-old Stanger follows a long line of successful conductors. Malcom H. Holmes 128 retired last season to take on new duties as dean of the New England Conservatory of Music. He led the organization since 1931. Woodworth and Walter Piston conducted before...
...standard Wilson cloud chamber for making atomic particles visible is a rather complicated apparatus. It contains moist air and a movable diaphragm or piston to rarefy it suddenly. This action cools the air by expansion and makes it "supersaturated" with water vapor which will condense into water droplets if given proper nuclei to condense upon. Fast-moving atomic particles provide the nuclei by ionizing (electrifying) the normally neutral atoms of the air. So particles (e.g., cosmic rays from outer space) that pass through the cloud chamber become visible as thin white trails of water droplets...
...airmen were busier last week than at any time since the war began. With Chinese Communist soldiers and equipment pouring from Manchuria into North Korea, every bridge across the Yalu River became a target. By the hundreds, U.S. jets and piston-powered planes bombed, rocketed and machine-gunned roads, supply points and assembly areas. The tempo of the allied air attack brought Russian-made jets (see below) racing across the border into dogfights with U.S. jets and piston planes. The Reds lost 48 planes in ten days. Maximum demolition and fire bomb attacks were delivered by 6-293 upon...
Born in Brooklyn, "on a street. . . that can only be described as drab," he survived the iron classical discipline of his first teachers, then, at 20, took off for Paris and the "encouraging" teaching of Nadia Boulanger (TIME, March 31, 1947). Other U.S. composers-Virgil Thomson, Walter Piston, Roy Harris, Marc Blitz-stein-were soon following the same Paris path...
...thousands of the College's graduates and hundreds of its present students the only route to knowledge in music is that mapped out by Professor Archibald T. Davison. They are those who took Music 1, a course Davison started in 1935 and has taught ever since. For others, 'Walter Piston, Randall Thompson, and Leonard Bornstein among them, he was a teacher. But to that first group--majors in history, or chemistry, or elementary French--he laid out a path previously uncharted and provided an experience of lifelong value...