Word: baton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Symphony Orchestra blinked, then stared: Was it Frank Sinatra? At first glance, the boyish-looking, new guest conductor was a dead ringer for Frankie: wispy, wire-thin, sallow-cheeked and dark-haired. But when 28-year-old Guido Cantelli stepped to the podium and rapped his baton, the jokes stopped. By the time Guido had driven them through bar-by-bar rehearsals of Hindemith and Haydn without looking at a score-gesturing and singing fa-sol-la-tis to make up for his lack of English-musicians were murmuring about "terrific talent...
...varsity lost both its mile and two mile events. Slow baton-passing seemed to hinder the runners' efforts. Their time for the mile was 3:30.5, with Harvey Thayer doing the fastest laps...
...engine), but that flopped. He taught boxing, refereed at football matches. In León he was a meter reader. Then, briefly, he got a city job, inspecting privies. It got him the nickname el mariscal, because the long flashlight he carried looked like a marshal's baton...
...long-faced Francis Poulenc, 49, a long time to get here ("During the war it was impossible, and before that I was not célèbre"). But he was making up for lost time. Unlike many visiting composers, who felt just as sure of themselves with a baton as with a pen, Poulenc wouldn't be caught dead on a podium. Says he, throwing up his hands: "I have no tempo." Instead, Manhattan audiences saw him first as piano accompanist to Baritone Pierre Bernac in a recital of the songs which, along with his religious choral works...
Featured in the intermission was the Eliot House Band, consisting of two trumpets, one sax, one big and one little drum, one baton-twirler, three attractive cheerleaders in white shorts, E-House sweaters, and orange wigs, and the Eliot Elephant in two parts...