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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Activity: Madison plays the piano, jazz and Gospel, beautifully. "Music was like talking to myself," he says. When he was 10 he had lessons in classical music for 10 months and made progress so fast that in less than a year he found himself playing in a competition for people with four or five years of experience. He said he entered the competition because he wanted to compete with his friend Carl who had been playing for several years. "Madison Sample was cocky at that stage," he admits...
...hope that I am missed and that my absence points up the fragility of our progress toward a more diverse faculty." Bell wrote to his colleagues...
...brothers had discussed their control device with Octave Chanute, a respected elder in aeronautics and author of Progress in Flying Machines (1894). The free exchange of information among early flying enthusiasts would result in dozens of patent-infringement suits brought by the Wrights in the U.S. and Europe...
...litigations were complex and inconclusive. They also slowed the progress of aviation. Wilbur and Orville makes its way bravely through the fogs of legal and commercial arrangements. The author is more confident in technical matters and the manner in which aviation fever spread. He provides exhilarating details on the Wrights' daring exploits at flying exhibitions at home and abroad and dismaying information about their vain attempts to get the U.S. Government off the ground. Wilbur died of typhoid fever in 1912. Orville survived him by 36 years, or long enough to see his Flyer evolve into both a bonanza...
...drawings, watercolors and temperas of Helga. Billed as "a set of fascinating documents in the odyssey of the American artistic achievement," with a first printing of 250,000 catalogs, le cirque Helga opens this week and will, of course, be jam-packed until late September, when it begins its progress to Boston, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Detroit, where it will finish in January 1989. The Metropolitan in New York City rather pointedly refused...