High-Heeled Shoes for organ-playing - Dr. Thalben-Ball, changing from his street shoes today before setting down to rehearse at the Town Hall organ for his first recital tomorrow night. He is organist for the Temple Church, London, the City of Birmingham and musical examiner for the BBC. It is 85 in the shade and the humidity is excruciating. New York is a hotbox and incinerator. Every now and again we are deluged with fierce, brief tropical thunderstorms and then the foggy curtain of heat falls over the painting city. Are New Yorkers letting the surfocating climatic conditions - I won't honor it by calling it weather won't honor it by calling it weather get them down? Not at all. July 25, 1951.