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...W. PERRY...
...music news happens in New York. TIME's story last week of Dr. Gustavus Capito of Charleston, W. Va. is a good example of the kind of coverage TIME's Music department attempts. Dr. Capito used to get a lump in his throat when he listened to Smetana's Moldau. He wondered why some American composer couldn't write as good a piece about the Kanawha, the river that flows through his home town. He offered to pay the conductor-composer of the Charleston Symphony Orchestra $1,000 for the kind of composition...
Recounting the rigors of his visit to the U.S., the Rt. Rev. John W. C. Wand, Bishop of London, told his diocese that he wound up feeling "rather like a squeezed orange...
...Jefferson Military College near Natchez, Miss., the money was still rolling in. It came, largely in five-and ten-dollar bills, from people all over the U.S. who wrote to applaud the 147-year-old prep school for turning down Oilman George W. Armstrong's proposed endowment with a crackpot list of "white supremacy" strings attached (TIME, Nov. 7). Last week, with $9,314 in the till from well-wishers, Jefferson had enlisted a special fundraiser. He was Vice Admiral Aaron Stanton ("Tip") Merrill, a Pacific task force commander in World War II and onetime chief of Navy public...
...result, concluded Dr. Leonard W. Parkhurst, the clinic's medical director, many businessmen "need the advice of psychiatrists to convince them that they must ... be boss of their jobs, not slaves to those jobs." In one group of 63 tested at the clinic, 80% needed medical, surgical or psychiatric treatment. The clinic's time-honored prescription: take it easier...