Word: batons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That night, in huge Usher Hall, which looks like a railway station, the first of 40 orchestral concerts burst into life under the talented baton of Eduard van Beinum (TIME, April 12). Next night Amsterdam's famed Concertgebouw Orchestra was led by France's silver-haired Charles Münch (Koussevitzky's heir in Boston...
...roads, Huey's bridges, Huey's schools and Huey's friends & enemies are everywhere that Earl goes. Earl works in Huey's 34-story skyscraper capitol and lives in Huey's governor's mansion-an imitation White House which the Kingfish erected in Baton Rouge so he would "feel at home" when he became President. Back-parish voters eye Earl beadily to see that he acts "like Huey would have wanted...
...boom began in World War II, when the river took some of the strain off the overworked railroads. The 40% postwar rise in rail freight rates was a greater spur. Now a ton of oil can be shipped on the river from Baton Rouge to Pittsburgh for $6.02 (compared to $12.62 by rail), a ton of steel from Chicago to Houston for $6.04 (compared...
Whoever Seattle's next conductor was, he would have to be a man who could be decorative at teas in the fashionable Highlands and Broadmoor as well as forceful on the podium. Said one Seattleite: "We ought to start him out right-with a baton of poison...
...Composer Kodaly himself, looking like an El Greco with his sunken face and pointed white beard, took the podium to lead the orchestra and two choruses in the work which first won him fame. When it was over, Education Minister Gyula Oretetay presented the composer with a gold-leafed baton, and bull-necked Communist War Minister Peter Veres, a self-educated peasant who makes a point of never wearing a necktie on formal occasions, gave Kodály a wreath of fresh Hungarian wheat...