Word: berthe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first-rate conductor of Mozart and Strauss operas-and the Metropolitan Opera badly needs additional conductors (one recently died, two others have been ill on & off). Besides, there is the increasingly attractive guest conductors' circuit, with few of the cares and all the pleasures of a regular berth. At week's end, the Minneapolis Symphony snapped him up for eight concerts in October. The only real loser was Pittsburgh...
Also in the running for the backfield berth is George Ceithaml, B squad coach and captain quarterback of Michigan's 1941 team. But the big objection to Ceithaml is the fact that if he joins Butch Jordan as a Valpey assistant, Crisler will have to build up his coaching staff again from scratch...
Chip Gannon was shifted to forward, Captain George Hauptfuhrer moved back to his center berth of last year, and Walt McCurdy returned to the starting five at guard. A new member of the Varsity, Mike "Red" Fansler, saw action for the first time this year as a substitute for Hauptfuhrer. But none of these moves produced a victory...
...train from Rome to Milan sallow, soft-voiced Communist Leader Fausto Gullo could only get an upper berth. A young fellow traveler respectfully offered his lower berth to the former Minister of Justice. But Gullo said: "It's my fault for not having booked early enough. I was late. I'm grateful, but really, one should pay for being late...
...trip back to Rome, Fausto Gullo, his penance done, had managed to secure a lower berth...