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...concert grands or giant uprights (people refuse to give them house space though their tone is beyond compare). They feature player spinets with foot pedals only, feel that pumping out the music is a genuine part of the nostalgia that is their stock in trade. Says one foot-pumping purist: "It gives you a sort of feeling of satisfaction .. . like natural childbirth...
...work designing a car. By 1950 they produced a wind tunnel-tested model that was nearly perfect aerodynamically, but had to be redesigned to hold people. Since then, under the prodding of slide rule-toting Managing Director Tryggve Holm, 57, Saab has become the car for the automotive purist who revels in its front-wheel drive and the tiny three-cylinder, two-stroke engine that looks too small to run a lawnmower but delivers as much power as a conventional engine three times its size. Last year Saab produced a record 33,100 cars: now it is in the midst...
...prospect delights British industry, which has so far handed Churchill $8,400,000. It appalls such purist dons as Novelist (Lucky Jim) Kingsley Amis of Peterhouse, who protests that "a university does not exist to serve society, and must never...
Died. Lord McGowan, 87, longtime leading British industrialist and cartel-championing munitions maker ("I have no objection at all to selling arms to both sides; I am not a purist in these things"), a working-class Scotsman (born Harry David McGowan) who started at 15 as a $1.25-a-week office boy with Nobel's Explosives Co., became co-founder and chairman (1930-50) of the monolithic Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd.; in London...
...nine months, more than 750,000 people have swarmed through it, and as the queues outside got longer and longer. Guggenheim began to wonder whether the museum should not offer more to the public in the form of more popular lectures, art courses, films and concerts. To such a purist as Sweeney, this was the last straw: Guggenheim's program, he felt, would only result in the museum's squandering its resources at the expense of its primary obligation, the acquisition and display of great...