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Last week Stan Kenton, a modernist bandleader whose arrangements blend boppish bounce with blood-curdling dissonances, prepared for his Paris debut with understandable misgivings. But when concert time came, the theater was very nearly filled. When the curtain rose, friendly applause swept up from the audience, and Dixieland partisans, if any, behaved themselves. Kenton & Co. gave them a program of tightly orchestrated originals, emphasizing in turn their lush reeds and knife-edged brasses. After listening to such Kenton favorites as Collaboration, Opus in Pastels, 23 North, 82 West (the coordinates of Havana), the crowd whooped "Bis! Bis!" Said Kenton...
...Kenton was not allowed to play in England. Not to be thwarted, 200 British fans flew in chartered planes to catch the show in Brussels, and at week's end, 3,000 more traveled to Dublin to catch Kenton's au revoir to Europe. "Over here," said Stan, "our music seems to be taken more seriously than back home...
...designer to work out a radical craft that would ride as much on air as on water, yet be controllable. The result was Slo-Mo IV, which the Detroiters have now grudgingly copied; but, as this week's race proved, they have not yet caught up with Stan Sayres. Throwing up a saucy rooster tail of white spray as she churned round & round the 3¼-mile course, Slo-Mo IV rubbed the Detroit boats in her wake. Behind on only one lap of the three-heat, go-mile race, she racked up speed records for a single...
...sailing were baseball, Corny Shields would long have ranked with the Stan Musials and Joe DiMaggios; if golf, with the Ben Hogans and Sammy Sneads. But sailing is sailing, and Until last year no scheme had ever been worked out for picking a national, all-class men's champion. Then, after some 1,500 elimination races in associations from coast to coast, Corny Shields and his two-man crew beat seven other crews at Mystic Seaport, Conn, last September, and Corny was crowned North American sailing champion, the first in history...
...been ordered by the Government to concentrate either on aircraft production or airlines. It decided to keep its planemaking business, and it needed a production man. From Douglas, President Kindelberger took two men with him: crack Designer "Lee" Atwood, now North American's president; and J. S. ("Stan") Smithson, a topnotch designer who is now North American's manufacturing vice president...