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Despite Macmillan's explanations, the Cabinet decision provoked a storm of protest in Parliament. Spearhead of the attack were Tory backbenchers, chief among them Toronto-born Sir Beverley Baxter, a onetime piano salesman who rose to the eminence of editor in chief...
James Phinney Baxter III, president of Williams College LL.D...
...James P. Baxter III, president of Williams College, praised the aid given to education by business, but agreed with President Pusey that business should contribute more. Baxter shared the speakers' platform with Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter at the annual luncheon of the Harvard Foundation for Advanced Study and Research and the Harvard Law School Alumni in the Harkness Commons yesterday...
Discussing the same problem earlier in the year, Pusey had urged business to take a larger share in education than it had up to now. Yesterday, Baxter said "Great as is the assistance of corporate giving to American higher education in 1956, President Pusey is certainly correct in saying that business as a whole is not giving enough...
...Capitol records-Les Baxter's Poor People of Paris and Nelson Riddle's Lisbon Antigua are the No. 1 and No. 2 jukebox favorites in the U.S. Its Sixteen Tons, by Tennessee Ernie, is the fastest selling record in history (1,000,000 in three weeks). Among Billboard's top ten albums, Capitol last week led all other companies with four. In 14 years Capitol has moved from nowhere to fourth place in the industry, just behind the patriarchs: RCA Victor, Columbia, Decca...