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When Belgian Instrument Maker Adolphe Sax stuck a reed into a conical brass tube and patented the hybrid in 1846, he contributed a new instrument to the military band. In time his saxophone traveled across the Atlantic, became a mainstay of jazz. But the saxophone has always had its strict classical disciples. Last week one of the best and most influential of them, France's Marcel Mule, made his U.S. debut with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and convincingly demonstrated just how good the serious alto sax can sound...
Fortunately, all three writers reach the same happy conclusion: Christmas is here to stay. This comes as no surprise to children's-book publishers. Whatever happens, it is always Christmas for them: the moppet market has become a mainstay of U.S. publishing...
...rolling land that could provide some of the lushest cattle and sheep pasturage in the world, wheat is being grown, encouraged by government price supports despite the world wheat glut. Ranchers, penalized by taxes and government cheap-meat policies, are producing less beef and wool-the country's mainstay exports. So serious are the shortages that 4,000 packinghouse employees have been laid off and the government has even been forced at times to import cattle, both for local consumption and for export as corned beef. Moreover. Uruguay's Swiss-style federal-council government must continue...
Lukens Steel Co. is a 147-year-old company, largely family-owned, that never caused much stir outside Coatesville, Pa. (pop. 15,000), where its plant is the mainstay of the community. But in recent months in Wall Street, Lukens Steel has become not only a well-known but a very puzzling company. Twice in the last fortnight the New York Stock Exchange has had to suspend trading in Lukens stock-first because of a rush to sell, later because of a scramble to buy. Last week the Stock Exchange and the Securities and Exchange Commission stepped...
...first singles for the varsity will be Dale Junta. The big junior from California was the mainstay of last year's championship squad, and should win with little trouble today...