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Armed with photographic evidence which may pierce the veil of mystery that surrounds our galaxy's core, Bart J. Bok, Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy, returned yesterday from a 19-month expedition to South Africa...
Credit Rating. In Houston, ten minutes after the Lindquist Finance Corp. was robbed of $447, Office Manager Howard Willson got a phone call from the thief who complained: "You didn't have enough money over there...
...ownership-and, of course, for circulation. In 1901 he was hanged in effigy as an inciter of McKinley's assassination, but a year later he was elected to a seat (rarely to be occupied) in Congress, having run in a "safe" Tammany district. He celebrated by marrying Millicent Willson, from the chorus of The Girl From Paris. It was the snubs they suffered from stuffy upperclass Britons on their gala transatlantic honeymoon that helped turn him into an Anglophobe. (In 1930 it was France's turn. The French barred W.R. from their shores because a Hearstling had swiped...
...years since his mother switched him from piano to flute ("so I would stand out"), Willson has just about run the musical gamut. At 17, he was playing flute and piccolo in Sousa's band; at 21 he was tootling the same instruments in the New York Philharmonic-Symphony under Toscanini. He started conducting when a bandleader friend offered to perform his Parade Fantastique, but told him he would have to lead it himself...
...industrious man, Willson has found time between rehearsals, broadcasts and film scores (The Great Dictator, The Little Foxes) to write a book (There I Stood With My Piccolo) and to turn out some serious music. He has three symphonies ("strictly orthodox") to his credit, one subtitled "An Old-Fashioned Piece for People Who Like Melody." Says he: "I guess I'm still an Iowa boy because I don't feel I've got a symphony unless there's melody. Indeed, now I usually ask myself 'Is it commercial...