Word: baton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stage lights of Manhattan's Carnegie Hall glared down last week on a frail little man whose cork-tipped baton at first seemed to wave in a rhythm unconnected with the New York Philharmonic's. But after a brief edginess in the opening work, he drove the Philharmonic through Ralph Vaughan Williams' bubbling Symphony No. 8 and made the music chortle, brag, sneer and guffaw with Falstaffian humor in a sheer triumph of spirit. At the end, the audience gave him as warm an ovation as has been heard in Carnegie this year. After 15 years...
...under the table ("black money") in order to bilk the tax collector. Although often of low-caste birth, they win such passionate public adulation (oddly mixed with India's idea that actresses are on a level with prostitutes) that they have to be constantly escorted by baton-swinging cops. "These are the new maharajahs," says one bitter moviemaker. "When I think of the money we gamble on them, I can't sleep...
Broke: the Law. In Baton Rouge, La., acting on a request from New Orleans authorities, police arrested William Brady, but let him go when New Orleans probation officials said they had no funds to use to come after...
...pudgy little man in smoothly fitted tails put down his baton, turned to the audience and inclined his balding head to the salvos of applause. That was in his native Jackson, Miss., where last week he conducted the stage premiere of his opera The Soldier plus his Malady of Love for a two-night stand. The next night, in black tie, he turned up in the pit of Manhattan's Lunt-Fontanne Theater, where he presided over a performance of Leroy Anderson's brassy musical Goldilocks. Four days later, in a sweatshirt, he was hovering over the orchestra...
...cartoon in the Chicago Sun showed Artur Rodzinski sailing high over the Chicago skyline astride a musical note. His grey mane streamed in the wind; one hand clutched a baton. Above his smiling face loomed a defiant caption: "I shall return...