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Tires & Symbols. Frenchmen and foreigners alike rely on the verdicts of Michelin; over the years, the guidebook has built up a reputation for accuracy and incorruptibility. Its motto is Pas de piston, pas de pot de vin-roughly, "No pull, no bribery." Not a line of paid advertising is carried on its pages...
Scratch Catcher. General Motors Corp. showed off an electric instrument which can detect scratches as small as one millionth of an inch. The "Surfagage" can be used in machine shops and factories to record the surface roughness of an automotive piston, crankshaft, gear tooth or any other part with a machined, ground, honed or lapped surface...
Walter H. Piston '24, (second from right), Walter W. Naumberg Professor of Music, talked on the challenge of modern music. He said he has rarely heard a composer who did not have something to communicate, and it is the responsibility of the listener to find...
...Walter Piston, professor of Music, will speak on Copland's topic. "The Challenge of Contemporary Music for the Listeners," Piston has won both the New York Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize in Music for his symphonies...
...Concertino for Piano and Chamber Orchestra, arranged for two pianos, drew the loudest applause of the evening, but perhaps that was because Mr. Piston himself was at one of the pianos. The music's substance was unclear--the themes undistinctive, the dissonances meaningless, and the two-piano arrangement not wholly successful. The piece appeared to be little more than long, scale passages, and the composer must have intended more than that. However, Piston and Tucker both played zealously, and it appeared that they, if no one else, knew exactly what was going...