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...Wright Aeronautical Corp. described this week its "Turbo-Cyclone 18 Compound Engine," designed for the utmost fuel economy. It has a conventional piston engine in front and three small turbines driven by the exhaust gases. The turbines add 20% more power, but use no extra fuel...
Andrew Heath, Jr., '50 of Eliot House has been awarded the Frank Huntington Bee be scholarship for one year's musical study in Europe. Among the trustees of the Beebe Fund is Walter Piston, Naumburg professor of music. Heath will be piano soloist with Arthur Fielder at the Pops on Sunday...
...might have been more appropriately called Pops Night at Harvard. Malcolm H. Holmes '28, director of the University Band, made one of his frequent appearances guest conducting the Orchestra in six selections, including the "Harvard Fantasy" by Leroy Anderson '29 and "The Incredible Flutist" ballet suite by Walter H. Piston, Naumberg Professor of Music...
...Piston has not yet announced the theme of the work, but has said it will be his Fourth Symphony...
...Piston has been on the Harvard faculty since 1926, after being graduated summa cum laude in 1924 and receiving the John Knowles Paine '69 fellowship for 1924-26. He studied in Paris in 1935 on a Guggenheim fellowship, and is a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences...