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...Carlos Chavez, prominent Mexican composer, will deliver the annual Charles Eliot Norton lectures next year. His talks will probably center around modern Mexican music...
...selection of Chavez was made by a committee headed by Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory. The committee also included Huntington Cairns, John P. Coolidge '35, director of Fogg Art Museum, Walter H. Piston '24, Walter W. Naumburg Professor of Music, and John M. Ward, chairman of the Department of Music...
Piston praised the selection of Chavez as Norton lecturer. "It is a fine thing to have him to speak here on himself and on Mexican music. He is surely the outstanding composer in Mexico today...
Pointing out that he is the fifth U.S. Senator in seniority, Four-Termer Chavez (first appointed in 1935) argued that New Mexico had to send him to Washington again to keep his chairmanship of the Senate Public Works Committee and of the potent Military Appropriations Subcommittee. Latching on to the recession, Chavez let no week go by without a claim for some new highway, irrigation project or defense installation attributable to his efforts, linked the profits of New Mexico businessmen and the jobs of New Mexico workmen to his Senate politicking. Last week, as New Mexicans went to the polls...
Next morning New Mexico surveyed the results of Chavez' "I'll get it for you wholesale" campaign. Democratic primary votes for Chavez: 65,000; for Elzer S. ("Johnny") Walker, his Democratic opponent: 35,000. Along the way, Chavez' 1952 foe, Pat Hurley, decided not to run, leaving it virtually a certainty that the Republican nominee, Rancher Forrest Atchley of Clayton, will lose to Dennis Chavez in November...