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...operate at a loss this year. Thomas denies that TWA is about to sell the overseas business, an industry rumor prompted by a plan to transfer to Pan American six long-range Boeing jets (cost: $40 million). Thomas has found that one 707 will do the work of three piston planes (instead of two, as originally expected), is willing to sell to Capital Airlines six Convair 880 medium-range jets, on order for TWA. The sale would relieve TWA's eccentric owner, Howard Hughes, of a $21 million bill; he would still have to raise an estimated $200 million...
...only non-German composer was Harvard's own Walter Piston, with his early, acerb Chromatic Study on BACH, and his more recent and highly important Prelude and Allegro. In this and the Mozart, Mrs. Pardue was assisted by a string orchestra of Summer School students, conducted by G. Wallace Wood worth, James Edward Ditson Professor of Music...
...will open her program with four works by Bach. These will be followed by The Fugue in A flat Minor, by Brahms, Schonster Herr Jesu, by Schroeder, and The Chromatic Study on the Name of Bach, by Piston...
Professor Woodworth will conduct the Sonata No. 15 in C for Organs and Strings by Mozart, and the Prelude and Allegro for Organ and Strings, also by Piston...
Lame and defenseless, the 395-m.p.h., four-engined Mercator (curiously designed, with two turbojets and two piston engines) was a sitting duck. The 670-m.p.h. Red jets swooped down in six passes altogether, scored 15 to 20 damaging hits, knocked out both starboard engines, and left the rudder usable only by its trim tabs. While Plane Commander Mayer kept a lookout, Lieut. Commander Vincent Joseph Anania, 39, the copilot at the controls, put the plane into a steep, top-speed dive and leveled out just 50 ft. above the sea. The MIGs broke off. Mayer ordered all movable equipment dumped...