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Though the Bolsheviks in his native Russia hold him in great respect, Igor Stravinsky has become a Frenchman. Though he has a home in Paris, he travels restlessly and incessantly, spending much of his time in the U. S., where he lectures and teaches a composition seminar at Harvard University. A hypochondriac, afraid of the cold, he bundles himself to the ears when he goes out walking, does muscle-flexing exercises before an open window when he gets up, recently cut himself down from 40 to five French cigarets a day, worries about his own and everybody else's health. Once he began a letter to a friend: "How are you feeling, I'm not feeling very well."
Once his friend Picasso drew a portrait of him. When Stravinsky tried to take it out of Italy with him during World War I, Italian police, deciding that it was a plan for a fortification, detained him at the border. Descendant of a long line of Polish aristocrats who moved to Russia in the 18th Century, his full name is Count Igor Feodorovitch Soulima-Stravinsky.