Word: batons
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...Orleans and Baton Rouge phone lines were overwhelmed with calls, making it difficult for four College students from the same high school, Isidore Newman in Uptown New Orleans, to reconnect. Lester Leung '06, who spent the summer in Cambridge, set up a message board online...
...conducting is one of the last of the great professional boys' clubs, and Alsop will be the first woman ever to lead a major American symphony orchestra. She also finds herself in the awkward position of having to face down an orchestral rebellion before she even picks up a baton...
...most fitting “sign of the times” transformation, however, is Violet Beauregarde: no longer just interested in gum, Violet is a velour sweatsuited competition freak—egged on by her Soccer (or more appropriately Baton-Twirling) Mom, played deliciously, in matching attire, by Missy Pyle...
RICHARD BRANSON Most likely, yes. And I've been backpedaling a bit. But I don't have any children of an age where they could step into my shoes and take on the baton. I've got a 19-year-old son, but I think it's important he doesn't end up doing my job just because...
Until his death in 1980, Cy Taillon was known to the initiated as the "World's Greatest Rodeo Announcer." Around the circuit, which could extend from Puyallup, Wash., to Baton Rouge, La., and into Madison Square Garden itself, no exhibition of bronco riding or calf roping seemed quite complete without Taillon's booming, animated commentary. He became something more than legendary to those who followed the sport. Said one admirer: "I don't know what God looks like, but I know what He sounds like." In 1977 his daughter, Cyra McFadden, created a literary stir with her first novel...