Word: baton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact was that astonished young (28) Concertmaster Alfred Bruening caught a flying baton in the face. The mystery: Did the baton just slip out of Halasz's hand, as Halasz claimed, or did he hurl it, straight and true as a javelin, as the outraged concertmaster afterward charged...
There were partisans in the orchestra to support each hypothesis. But James Caesar Petrillo, czar of the mighty American Federation of Musicians, rushed to the concertmaster's corner. "The way I understand it," steamed Petrillo, "things weren't going so good, so [Halasz] throws the baton in this kid's face ... If Halasz is looking for trouble he's going to get it-especially in Chicago." Petrillo stoked his boiler until just before curtain time for the next performance, and then, with the audience in their seats for Carmen, ordered the musicians...
...throw the baton?" roared Petrillo. "Of course not, it's ridiculous," replied Halasz. "If you threw the baton, are you ready to apologize?" "I didn't throw the baton," insisted Halasz...
ALLEN O. JERNIGAN Baton Rouge, La. ¶And so it seemed to TIME...
...Stalin's greatest victories have been won in the United States" he cried while waving his forefinger like a baton. "Poland was lost in Washington, D.C. by Alger Hiss. China was lost in our nation's capitol." These charges are familiar, but Budenz supported them in a unique way. He grabbed a thin red volume from somewhere and read off a eulogy to Stalin by the Chinese Delegation to the Seventh International. "Strange words aren't they," said Budenz, "coming from Asia-for-the-Asiatics like Owen J. Lattimore...