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...East End, but it has excellent acoustics and is sometimes used for recording sessions. Concertmaster Sidney Sax gave the signal for the orchestra to tune up. Then, from a double door, the frail, stooped figure began a slow walk to the podium, his right hand gripping a sturdy cane, his left on the shoulder of an associate. Carefully, the old man settled into his tall chair. At age 94, Conductor Leopold Stokowski was ready last week to cut another record...
Stokowski decided to dissolve the tension. "This is really a piece for brigands," he said. "You . . . and you . . . and you, look like real bad men to me. Bet you always go through the customs and say, 'Nothing to declare.' " That brought the appropriate guffaws. Then, grabbing his cane, Stokowski ambled off to listen to the tapes and decide, as always, which parts of the recording were good and which needed work...
...most cases there is no law to justify Patriot attacks on Loyalist sympathizers. Often it is simply a matter of mob violence. When a crowd of Patriots seized a Massachusetts customs official named John Malcohn, a witness recalls: "Being disarmed of sword, cane, hat and wig, he was genteelly tarred and feathered [until] he had more the appearance of the devil than any human being." Malcohn survived that mauling ?only to be trapped by another mob three months later. This time "he was stript stark naked, one of the severest cold nights this winter, his body covered all over...
...teenager, Rosenthal suffered from osteomyelitis, a bone disease, walking at times with crutches or a cane. The disease forced him to drop out of school for two years. After one operation, he was erroneously told he would never walk again, but he regained the use of his legs after treatment as a charity patient at the Mayo clinic...
Rizzo's most recent trouble began in March with a satiric and rather rough column in the Philadelphia Inquirer that portrayed him as a swaggering pol who spoke and thought like Archie Bunker. Rizzo looks tough, even hobbling around with the aid of a cane (the result of a broken hip suffered during an oil-refinery explosion in Philadelphia last October). He also talks tough; in his 1971 "law-'n'-order" campaign, he called his opponents "bleeding hearts, dangerous radicals, pinkos and faggots." In certain respects, to be sure, the comparison is hardly apt. Rizzo, who favors...