Word: baton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Earl and Russell had most of the legislators under their calloused thumbs. The House rammed through most of the governor's bills by whopping majorities, would pass the rest this week. The Senate was set to do the same. Nevertheless, a good many lawmakers bedded down in Baton Rouge's Heidelberg Hotel over the weekend: they were afraid to go home and face the music from their constituents...
When Pianist-Conductor Jacques Rachmilovich arrived in the U.S. eight years ago, he was almost broke. For a while, he worked in a Los Angeles gas station. In his spare time he took over (without pay) the baton of a nameless group of Hollywood movie musicians who were so bored with stop & go script music that they banded together to play, once a week, some piece of music all the way through...
...through the hot morning they streamed into Baton Rouge-wool-hatted farmers, "Cajuns" with whiskey on their hips, gamblers, cattlemen, oilmen, old folks and bobby-soxers. They came by train, bus, automobile and even on yachts. The Longs were coming back into power: Huey's greying, gravel-voiced brother Earl was being inaugurated governor of Louisiana...
...audience was waiting to see if Conductor Walter had lost any of his old magic. After a magnificent performance of Bruckner's Te Deum, they were still wary. But after Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, they could hold back no longer. Almost before Bruno could bring his baton down, a young girl had rushed to the podium with a handful of red roses. For fifteen minutes, holding his posies before him, he bowed to the bravos and applause...
Malcolm H. Holmes '28, whose baton leads both the Band and the Orchestra, will direct the musical frolickings...