Word: stan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the guests gathered at the Coq Rouge for cocktails, they were 80 strong. There were young members of café society whose seasonal pairings are as familiar to the public as Stan Musial's batting average. There were soubrettes who had not been heard from since Julia Marlowe played Juliet. The once-famed Duncan sisters were there. Fanny Ward, who made a living for years as "the 60-year-old flapper," was trying to look a youthful 76 in an outfit that combined a bridal gown and a Baby Snooks nightshirt...
...composers (like Harvard's Walter Piston) have taken pride in being told that their music was "stravinskyesque." Aaron Copland, best of native U.S. composers, believes that Stravinsky's continuing hold on composers "is without parallel since Wagner's day." Even Bebopper Dizzy Gillespie, and Stan Kenton, daddy of "progressive jazz," who think they have invented a new kind of music, concede generously that Stravinsky "uses some of the same sounds and rhythmical devices." The fact is that Stravinsky and jazz have learned from each other...
...Nuts. The man who made the seagoing islanders among the most airminded people in the world is Stanley C. Kennedy, 58, the island-born, Stanford-educated president of the line. When he came home from World War I service as a Navy flyer, Stan Kennedy tried to get his father's Inter-Island Steam Navigation Co., for years the only inter-island freight and passenger carrier, to start an airline. Instead of 15 hours from Honolulu to Hilo, he argued, it would take only a few hours. Old James Kennedy, a hypercautious Scotsman, said nothing doing...
After his father retired, Stan got Inter-Island to give planes a try. He started in November 1929 with two eight-passenger Sikorsky Amphibions. In 1941 Hawaiian bought three Douglas DC-3s, just in time to cash in on war traffic. All Inter-Island's passenger boats were put into troop service, so civilians had to use Hawaiian Airlines to get from island to island. Hawaiian also flew food from outlying ranches into Honolulu, and when Hilo's main laundry closed down (TIME, May 12, 1947), provided two-day service from a laundry on the island of Maui...
Weather & Orchids. For his safety record, Stan Kennedy thanks the weather (usually perfect for flying) and a heavy emphasis on maintenance, which works so smoothly that planes are often "turned around" at airports in five minutes. Moreover, his 54 pilots, most of them hand-picked war veterans headed by ex-Navy man Charles I. Elliott, know their routes as well as motormen. (One of them breaks the monotony of the same old daily run by scattering orchid seeds from his plane...