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The article presents an analysis of U.S. railroad stocks and other segments as of July 15, 1955. It points out the consideration deserved by railroad stocks from conservative investors. It presents a table that lists a number of investment-grade railroad stocks including Rock Island, Southern Railway, and Union Pacific. It discusses the prospects of pharmaceutical stock Bristol-Myers and truck and car rental business Hertz Corp.

The kind of piano-playing Clifford Curzon is capable of one hears in the life he creates in the first-movement cadenza with his sharp-contoured phrasing, he is, unmistakably, a highly accomplished pianist and musician who, for some reason, chooses to underplay all through the rest of the work, the slow movement losing most from his pallid treatment of it pallid treatment of it. However the orchestral part, which is as active and as delightfully so, as the piano part, is well played by the National Symphony under conductor Boyd Neel and the playing together of pianist and orchestra is good.