Show WHOPS NEWS THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON N rw YORK somebody was always eways NEW turning in a riot call when igor stravinsky Is I fire bird aal an sacre du PrIn printemps temps were first played ile ho cwi wild id 0 composer vas g tho the earl spears SP h garvard S the browder salons and of professorship musical con serva but now hes ns as respect able as nicholas murray butler as he takes his post as profess esdor of poetry pos at Il harvard arvard A As s ho he writes his fourth symphony he enjoys full and complete academic sanction on for tho the wild what were once considered vagaries of his compositions in russia III ats I 1 parents wanted anted him to bo be a lawyer illemsky korsakoff Korsa kotT was the ho pled riper who lured him film front from law books to outlaw music but who unleashed his genius and profited as stravinsky became one of his most knowing and gifted interpreters tile the frail person of oe professor stravinsky v as he may now be called has been shaken shak on and racked by the torrent of 0 his genius and every so often he has found it necessary to take time out in switzerland tor for repairs but at 64 he still has furious vitality and is still ot at midway mid way in m his creative career with a sharp pencil lie he spears sounds marshaling them in a symphony he looses loose demons to slay them with id his baton this demoniac dissonance caused riots in france when his compositions were first produced it took quite a few years for discerning critics to discover er that he planned it that way and that there hero was law and order in his music Is being written currently M MUCH in comparison of the intellectual climate ot of am america erica today with that of the immediate prewar pre war lod of 1917 f i HM i r vet steel maker eugene G debunks war as grace dent of the source of profit a bethlehem steel corporation offers something possibly worthy weighing in this balance in his vehement repudiation of any desire for war profits we dont want any war to inflate Bethle hems business says mr grace wo we prefer peace we are in a position to be war baby number one as in tho the last war but I 1 can tell you that our directors and associates dont want that kind of business id like to see the he war stop today bethlehem would be better off if it did in contrast are the words of another great industrialist now dead who at a now new york luncheon club in january 1917 spoke as follows america has come of ago age its ships cannot be driven from the s seas cas its citizens will go wherever their trade or business leads them no insolent challenge to our c enterprise nt or will stay us in our peaceful pursuits whenever and wherever we choose to go and I 1 say to you that our great business establishment will remain world business for whatever profit may legitimately accrue it Is not only our right but patriotic duty to seize opportunity to maintain the full solvency of this na uon tion mr grace as president defit of both bethlehem steel and tho the bethlehem shipbuilding corporation had special charge of all production of cannon armor plate and munitions during the world war last summer lie ho rounded out 40 years with bethlehem one of tile the great steel masters or of the country alter after his graduation in electrical engineering gi at lehigh university his first job at tile the company was operating an electric crane he became general superintend ent manager and a director in 1911 ile iio became president in 1913 ile iio Is 63 years old C comparisons are dangerous but it would appear that walter A wood wearing the colors of the american geographical society hay flail intrepid climber clim be romped d away w with I 1 t h t the h a maps peaks of mountain mounta in eli elias as mountains climbing e sweepstakes his currently reported achievement in mapping the peaks of the ellas elias mountain range in the yukon territory caps capa a 11 list of hazardous assign ments of the last six years in most of which mrs NV wood has shared last 51 march arch he led several companions companio Is up a foot peak in the alpine jungles of the sierra nevada de santa marta maria runge in colombia with the louis boyd expedition to calit cal it greenland in 1933 mr wood has traversed many C countries in the last six years on research missions tor for the american geographical geography al so BO clety consolidated features service |