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...Boston Symphony Orchestra will honor Walter H. Piston, Walter W. Naumburg Professor of Music, by playing for the first time a new Piston symphony in the Orchestra's 75th anniversary concerts on Nov. 25 and 26. Piston was commissioned by the BSO to write his Symphony No. 6 especially for the anniversary concerts...
...chest X-ray taken last week with Ike in a standing position showed that his heart remains normal in size. "The doctors are very pleased," reported Jim Hagerty. One final physical task-stair-climbing-remained before the President qualified for departure, scheduled for Nov. 11, when he will go to Washington, then on to his farm home at Gettysburg. At week's end, he had begun practicing on a two-step exercise stile in his room, preparing for the steps he would soon climb to board his plane, the Columbine-homeward bound...
...Butler remembered good politics as he rose, white-faced and grim, to defend himself against a Labor censure motion condemning him for "incompetence and neglect." The week before, Butler had been scourged by Labor's ambitious Hugh Gaitskell, a former Chancellor himself, who demanded that Butler resign (TIME, Nov. 7). Now Butler set out to defend his emergency tax-raising budget to combat British inflation. He not only admitted that his tax increases would hurt but made a virtue of it ("I do not expect them to be popular"). Then Butler turned sarcastically to the charge of incompetence. "Socialists...
...week starting Wednesday, Nov. 9. Times are E.S.T., subject to change...
...stock market, spurred by news that Standard Oil (New Jersey), the world's No. 1 oil company, planned a 3 for 1 stock split, surged out of its doldrums, wiping out October's losses. The Dow Jones Industrial Average made its largest weekly gain since Nov...