Word: batons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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University longhairs will have an opportunity to sample world-renowned technique when Serge Koussevitsky takes the baton to conduct the Boston Symphony Orchestra tonight in another of the current concert series, scheduled for 8:30 o'clock in Sanders Theater...
...work immediately, although he will not take office until May 11. He announced that he would set up a "little capital" in Baton Rouge. He wanted to prepare for the legislature; he had 3,000 jobs to hand out. The biggest, that of executive assistant, would probably go to Huey's curly-haired, blunt-nosed son Russell Long, a 29-year-old lawyer who wants to be governor too, some day. Earl also swore that he would keep his campaign promises (among them: free school lunches, $50-a-month old-age pensions, and bonuses for veterans), which...
...years in Pittsburgh, Hungarian-born Fritz Reiner's sharp tongue and stern baton won him more admirers than friends. But he gave Pittsburgh an orchestra to be proud of. Three years ago, when the trustees let him build it up to 90 men and lengthen the season, the Pittsburgh Symphony became one of the ten best...
Once in rehearsal, when the orchestra stumbled on some of Britten's rocky rhythms, Conductor Cooper slapped his score with his baton, cried out: "No, no, it is not wrong. I am like you, gentlemen. At first I thought it was wrong . . . you will change your minds." Most already had. Muttered one violinist, tapping his temple: "It's good, it's very good...
Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), which has a synthetic-fuel pilot plant at Baton Rouge, is placing its long-run major bet on gasoline from coal. This week, Standard and the Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co. broke ground at Library, Pa. for their pilot plant to gasify coal. The next step, a fairly simple one, will be to make petroleum from the gas. Said E. V. Murphree, president of the Standard Oil Development Co.: "Enough oil can be made from the nation's known coal reserves, alone, to last the U.S. for 1,000 years...